Category: Children
A mother’s gift helps a boy endure a long journey
By Elizabeth Lopez LatinaLista My Shoes and I by René Colato Laínez, and published by Boyds Mills Press, is an inspiring story about a boy named Mario and the journey he makes with his father across three borders to the United States from El Salvador. Shortly before their trip, Mario receives a pair of shoes [...]
Spotlight Non-profit: Teaching kids to grow academically one move at a time
LatinaLista — The game of chess gets little respect in the sports world. That’s a shame since it is a game that demands as grueling a workout as any other sport, even though the muscles it’s flexing are in the brain. If more saw chess as the sport it is then maybe there would be [...]
NYC high school students create winning video about appreciating diversity
LatinaLista — It’s often heard these days that there is too much hate speech in the country; too much intolerance. Unfortunately, most of the young people in this nation are on the frontline of this unrest. Public schools are one of the few places where people of different religions, ethnicities, races, disabilities and sexual orientations [...]
Bilingual campaign enlists public’s help to give one million free breakfasts to needy kids
LatinaLista — The US Dept. of Agriculture estimates that global food prices set a record last month. The ripple effect of those high prices is felt everyday for families as they browse grocery store shelves. For many families, it has become less of a question: Will the kids eat it? to Can we afford it? The [...]
Nation’s Report Card shows it’s Latino and black students at inner-city schools still getting shortchanged
LatinaLista — The recent release of the 2009 Science NAEP Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) report, otherwise known as the Nation’s Report Card, is yet another bugle revelry to get people to jump up and see the writing on the (chalk)board. According to the findings, fourth-and eighth-graders in most of the report’s 17 participating urban [...]
Health tool helps Latino families decide when it’s time to call the pediatrician
LatinaLista — A parent’s worst moment is when their child is sick. Their worst nightmare is when they have no health insurance and money is so tight that a doctor’s visit is a last resort. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in their 2010 report on the state of the health in the [...]
USA: Creating political change for next generation of Latinas
By Debbie Gordils LatinaLista CHICAGO, USA – Today was very indicative of how I juggle work with mommy-hood. I dropped off my children at school, jumped on the treadmill and, all the while, was making and taking work related calls. I rushed to help organize and sort 3,000 plus boxes of Girl Scout cookies. The phone [...]
Creating a new life doesn’t mean changing your name
By Lisa Lopez LatinaLista The book “My Name is Jorge: On Both Sides of the River” by Jane Medina is a vivid portrait of a young boy’s personal experience in a new country. Through bilingual poetic prose, the author manages to capture the constant struggles a Mexican family endures while crossing over the Rio Grande [...]
A young girl brings her dreams across the border
By Lisa Lopez LatinaLista Jane Medina’s “The Dream on Blanca’s Wall” is an outstanding bilingual collection of poems from Blanca’s point of view. Similarly to Medina’s previous notable book “My Name is Jorge”, this poetic collection presents the female perspective on the universal struggles to fit into a new society and country. Blanca is a [...]
Unleashing the magic of a child’s imagination
By Martha Rico LatinaLista Benjamin, Daniel and Alejandra love spending time with their abuelos at their farm on the weekends. They especially look forward to Grandpa’s special breakfasts and working together outdoors doing chores. On one particular visit, Benjamin claims to see something on the burnt tortilla Grandpa Luis serves him. He says it is [...]
