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Why This Attachment Parent Doesn’t Co-Sleep

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Co-sleeping, or more accurately, bed-sharing seems to be the rage right now among parents who choose an attachment style of parenting. I happen to be one of those granola-eating, hippie-thinking, attachment parents and yet, I do not share…
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Obese Latina Mom Mayra Rosales Charged With Murder

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Mayra Rosales, 31, is fat. She's really, really fat. She's 1,100 pounds and bedridden because of how fat she is. Rosales is the focus of the "Half-ton Killer," a special airing on TLC. Rosales was accused of the March 2008 killing her two-year…
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Preserving Your Own Identity While Being a Mom

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There was a you, before you had children. Maybe she liked posing for racy smartphone photos, or taking cooking classes, or dancing to reggaeton on the bar with her friends at the local watering hole. She probably even liked sex. You know who…
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A Friend’s Cancer Diagnosis Hits Close to Home

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I recently got the news via email that one of my best friends has just been diagnosed with colon cancer. I’m still in shock. My friend is a little younger than I am and has no history of cancer in her immediate family. Due to some minor…
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Millennials Who Make Us Proud

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Most of the people I know have a horror story about a Gen Y employee or child which often ends with a comment along the lines of: They have a strong sense of entitlement; They don’t care about details; or They want to begin their careers…
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Follow Friday: Mamiverse Books, Voto Latino and Fox News Latino

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I have a confession: I have not yet unpacked my bags after the Blogalicious 2012 social media conference in Vegas last week! And I have to find time to do it, because I need to repack them for my presentation at Latism 2012 in Houston,…
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Mamiverse Made it Personal at Blogalicious 2012

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There are luddites out there who dismiss social media as superficial, frivolous and time consuming. I would know! I used to be one of them. I shunned social media until a friend introduced me to MySpace in 2007, and suggested I could use…
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10 Ways Your Local School Board Impacts Your Life

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Editor’s Note: This guest editorial is provided by Librotraficante, the organization formed in the wake of the Arizona Legislature’s ban on Mexican American Studies. The Librotraficante Caravan “smuggled” books by Latino writers…
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How to Find Resilience in Hard Times

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Resilience is the human capacity to adapt to circumstances in the face of grief or adversity, whether coping with the loss of a loved one, a layoff, a disease, a divorce, or any emotionally disrupting event. It is resilience that enables us…