As A Latina Child, I Refused To Speak Spanish. Here's What I'm Doing Differently With My Son.
As a little girl, whenever someone would speak to me in Spanish, I was adamant about responding in English. That’s not because I didn’t understand. I grew up in a Spanish-speaking household, learning how to speak English alongside my parents, who moved here from Nicaragua during the Sandinista Revolution. While my father picked up English from his co-workers on construction sites, my mother did her best to learn from books, TV and the occasional English class. My own education came from television, especially PBS shows like “Mr. Rogers” and “Reading Rainbow.”
