Synopses & Reviews
From a distinguished psychologist, mother, and Latina, Parenting with Pride Latino Style offers the first bicultural child-rearing approach for Latino parents. This groundbreaking book supports families in raising their children with time-honored Hispanic values while incorporating the best that North America has to offer.
Dr. Vazquez's unique parenting method, the New Traditionalism (El Nuevo Tradicionalismo), preserves classic Latino ideals, such as pride, family loyalty, and courtesy, while helping parents revise their traditional authoritarian child-rearing style, blending the best of Latino and American cultures and dramatically reducing cultural conflict in the family. Her seven steps to successful parenting are grounded in the acronym ORGULLO ("pride"):
O: Organize your feelings R: Respect your child's feelings G: Guide and teach your child; do not dictate U: Update your media awareness often L: Love your child for who she or he is L: Listen to your child O: Open the communication channels -- and keep them open
Self-assessments and reflection exercises help parents resolve the dilemmas produced when two cultures combine. Detailed examples show how to use these methods immediately in daily life -- from family relationships to children's friendships to school issues.
Clear, compassionate, and based on Dr. Vazquez's personal experience as a Latina professional and parent, Parenting with Pride Latino Style is the one book that enables contemporary Latino parents to pass on their rich cultural heritage to their children -- and to future generations as well.
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“Easy to read and contains copious references and recommended resources.” Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News (Texas)
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“Dr. Vazquez, a psychologist and first-generation Latina, shows Latino parents how to raise well-adjusted, culturally flexible children.” Barri Bronston, Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
Synopsis
En Criando a Su Niñ o con Orgullo Latino, Carmen Inoa Vazquez, una distinguida sicó loga y madre latina, le ayuda a los padres latinos a educar a sus hijos en un ambiente bicultural, integrando sus valores hispanos con toda la novedad que tiene para ofrecer la cultura norteamericana. Con su innovadora té cnica llamada, El Nuevo Tradicionalismo, la Dra. Vazquez ofrece a sus lectores una manera eficaz de preservar los clå sicos valores latinos de orgullo, familia, lealtad y cortesí a mientras le ayuda a los padres a reevaluar sus nociones de autoritarismo tradicional. Sus siete pasos para criar niñ os exitosamente se resumen en el acró nimo ORGULLO:
O: Organice sus sentimientos R: Respete los sentimientos de sus hijos G: Guí e y enseñ e a su hijo; no le ordene U: Utilice los medios de comunicació n y actualí cese a menudo en ellos L: La importancia de amar al niñ o o a la niñ a por ser quien es L: La importancia de escuchar O: Opere con canales de comunicació n abiertos, siempre
Con sus sencillos ejercicios de autoevaluació n y numerosos ejemplos detallados, Criando a Su Hijo con Orgullo Latino es el libro que le ayudará a los padres latinos modernos a transmitir su herencia cultural tanto a sus hijos como a las generaciones futuras.
Synopsis
Living within dual cultures doesn't mean you have to choose one or the other for your children. You can get the best out of both, and
Parenting with Pride -- Latino Styleshows you how to do just that.
Dr. Carmen Inoa Vazquez draws on her personal and professional experiences to present a unique parenting method called El Nuevo Tradicionalismo (The New Traditionalism), created especially for Latino families living in North America. With Dr. Vazquez's guidance, you'll learn how to instill a sense of cultural pride in your children and at the same time allow them to embrace the society they live in. Insightful solutions, techniques, and detailed examples show you how to integrate these methods into your family's daily life, including managing the role of elders, the use of the Spanish language, children's friendships, and school issues. It's time to parent with pride -- Latino style!
About the Author
Carmen Inoa Vazquez, Ph.D., an expert in cross-cultural issues, is one of New York City's most prominent Latina psychologists, with more than twenty-five years of clinical and teaching experience. She is founder of the Bilingual Treatment ProgramClinic at Bellevue Hospital, and she founded and directs the Institute for Multicultural Behavioral Health. She is a clinical professor in psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and City University of New York, publishes and lectures on ethnic and cultural issues, and is co-author of The Maria Paradox: How Latinas Can Merge Old World Traditions and New World Self-Esteem. Her media features include Today, Good Day New York, the BBC, the Miami Herald, the Los Angeles Times, El Diario, Latina, and more. Dr. Vazquez emi-grated at age sixteen from the Dominican Republicand is the mother of two grown sons. She and her husband live in New York City.