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Democracy In Action!

May 29, 2017
On the radio show this week we cover the latest on healthcare and what you can do to make sure it isn’t cut for 23 million people; the terrible, awful, no good, very bad budget that Trump proposed and how to stop it; paid family and medical leave in the United States of America; and why David...
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10 Ways to Keep Spanish Alive in our Home

May 26, 2017
image2.JPG The moment they brought my baby girl to my arms, the only words that came out of my mouth where in Spanish. Since I married an English speaker, and realized we would be raising our family in a small town in North GA, I felt fear that my children would not be able to communicate with my...
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Five Ways to Help Your Children Succeed in School and Life in Late Spring with #MomsReading!

May 25, 2017
Welcome to another installment of #MomsReading! In this series, we discuss books and activities that parents and care providers can use to build a child’s social and emotional development. The rest of the posts in the series can be found here . Social-emotional skills support the success of...
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8 Free Online Language Learning Resources

May 24, 2017
*** Want more information on raising multilingual children? Visit MomsRising's bilingual parenting resource site: http://action.momsrising.org/survey/bilingual_baby/?source=blog I remember the first day of 7th Grade when I walked into my Spanish 1 class. We were given new names (Bethany was now...
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RSVP to our early learning meeting with Cambridge, MA Mayor E. Denise Simmons!

May 19, 2017
Join us for a high-impact meeting with Mayor SImmons to discuss early learning opportunities in Cambridge, MA.
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Dr. Fabrice Jaumont offers insight on dual language program creation in NYC

May 18, 2017
*** Want more information on raising multilingual children? Visit MomsRising's bilingual parenting resource site: http://action.momsrising.org/survey/bilingual_baby/?source=blog Dr. Fabrice Jaumont is the Education Attaché at the Embassy of France in NYC. In that role, he has played an instrumental...
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A Bilingual Lifestyle Has Made Us a Better Family

May 16, 2017
Note: This is a guest post by Aileen Passariello-McAleer, co-founder of MamaLingua for The BilingualRisers campaign. I was raised in a Spanish-speaking household. Although I heard Spanish throughout my childhood, I rarely responded in Spanish. I didn’t know how important my language was to me until...
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California, add your name! Families should not have to choose between a job and affordable childcare!

May 16, 2017
California friends, I wanted to make sure you heard the update! You might remember that the Governor’s original budget proposal in January reneged on millions of dollars in promised funding for early learning programs.Thousands of MomsRising members across California jumped into action and urged...
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Why we should speak our native language with our children

May 15, 2017
For most immigrant parents, raising bilingual children is not a choice or a decision, it’s a way of life. Regardless of whether our native language is Spanish, Filipino, Korean, Chinese or French, we all want our children to be able to communicate in the language in which we were born and teach...
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3 Razones por las que Necesitamos Más Programas de Lenguaje Dual

May 15, 2017
Antes de que mi primera hija naciera, cuando todavía no podía decidirme por un nombre, o el tipo de pañales que iba usar, había algo que sí tenia claro: ella iba a ser bilingüe. Ya que el español era mi idioma natal, yo creía que sería muy fácil. Sin embargo, pronto descubrí que eso no iba a ser...
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