This is so helpful for parents teaching their kids Spanish! ​​This is literally a phrase book for parents that is seamlessly integrated into a coloring book that the little one can also use.

Say sentences like, “Can you color the circle blue?”, (“¿Puedes pintar el círculo de color azul?”) ,”Complete the maze.”, (“Completa el laberinto”) and so much more practical phrases. There are more than 200 phrases!

Each page even has a QR code so you can instantly hear how each phrase is pronounced!

Speak like a native speaking Spanish parent! This is a handy tool for parents who want to be able to give their child an immersive Spanish experience! It’s designed by a non native speaker (me) who has a genuine interest in raising my kids fluent in foreign languages.

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This is one sentence I cannot stand and wish it banned in parenting! One mention of a little academic ambition and you are immediately hit with abusive gross allegations!

To put it bluntly, my academic work with my two year old is like 20 minutes probably broken up in 5 min increments throughout our 12 hour waking day which he is free to do anything else. “Work” is barely a visible line in a pie chart of our day! And I even try to make the “work” the fun part with games!

When you work smarter not harder (or longer) guess what happens? Great things! This has always been my personal experience!

Rather than congratulate me on my hard work in creative and effective lesson planning and researching, I always get flack. I am seriously going to block anyone out of my life who makes stupid comments shitting on all my hard work. Sorry to be crude, but that’s what it is and there is no other way to put it.

I go out of my way, more than academic planning, to incorporate fun and joy in my children’s lives! And by the way, joy is actually good for brain development (I read in a book) so as an evidence based tiger mom, I really make if a point to have fun on the daily. Bubble machines, check! Joking around, check! TV shows with no hidden educational agenda that are actually good, double check! Yes there’s lots of outdoor time, playground time, silliness and more. Anyone who knows me personally knows me to be a funny person and I have been seriously encouraged by a lot of people to be a comedian, so I use all my comedic skills and creative skills for my kids to have fun. So if the kids have to focus like 20 min a day on a little academics (with no force at all) there is nothing wrong!

It’s funny that people right away feel free to accuse you of pressuring a child but no one accuses you of lazy parenting if you leave your kids idle all day.

It’s funny no one accuses you of “pressuring” your child when you send them to pre-K which is several hours of learning! Or regular school which is a full day plus homework for the evening!

By the way this stupid philosophy is tied in with other ones that make me mad like “do you take time for you?!” Like no! Are you offering to help? If not then why rub it in my face?! Where was this concern when I was working full time and commuting two hours? But now as a mom with the most important job in the world you want me to take some self care?! No other difficult stage in my life did anyone ever mention self care! Also it’s not logistically possible especially with COVID-19 around. I actually have no problem with being around my kids a full 24/7. If you don’t, don’t impose it on me! I don’t impose it on you!

And then the accusation of not socializing my kids! Omg! I have the planning skills to throw elaborate parties, I could make my kids the socialites of the town but there is something called Delta! And I am an educated person who respects people who are more educated than me and I can read stats! I am not going to risk my kids life!

So that’s that. I just can’t stand mainstream parenting philosophy attacking me. Conclusion, just block it out! There is no logical reason to be exposed to it and waste more precious time!

As you may know, English wasn’t quite my first language, I was in ESL even! But now I can’t speak Farsi really well even thought it’s my native language. In fact I can express myself better in French. The very rare time I speak Farsi, French words come out accidentally. I wonder why my brain wired languages like that! Lesson here is if you don’t use it you lose it!

I opened up a Peanut App because I was curious if I could filter moms by characteristics to see if there were any French moms (Louisiana is right next door after all!) or any moms with similarities to me, turns out you can’t. Oh well. I continued scrolling anyway.

I saw this weird profile of this woman who wrote she gave her one year old up for adoption and she needs to heal. So then why would you want to meet other mothers? Very odd.