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    22 Things All Latina Moms Understand

    These are the struggles when your Latina and American worlds collide.

    1. The PTA always assumes that you're bringing in Flan for International Day.

    2. Booking a child's birthday party isn't so easy when you need more than the allotted 2 hours and your guest list includes more adults than children.

    3. Your parents are always asking you when you are taking your children to their motherland.

    4. Everyone expects your children to be whizzes in Spanish class.

    5. Your family starts chisme due to you not having a top shelf open bar available at children’s birthday parties.

    6. A thank you card? Your family is insulted that you sent a thank you card and not thanked them over the phone first. Thank you cards are too impersonal.

    7. You also have to force your children to call and thank all of the family members who called them on their birthdays.

    8. You are not a Latina mom until you receive this starter kit.

    9. You continuously have to explain why you cannot attend a friend’s Christmas party on December 24th because you will be celebrating Noche Buena.

    10. Your mother in law, tia and primas all want you to feed your baby solids before the recommended time of 6 months.

    11. There's no excuse for taking your kid to a doctor's appointment without dressing them up.

    12. There is also never an excuse for YOU not to look your best. Stomach flu? Childbirth? Death? Never an excuse.

    13. You have that one aunt or uncle who tells your kid that if anything ever goes wrong to call them.

    14. RSVP? Yeah right, your family laughs in the face of your RSVP request.

    15. There are two guarantees when visiting abuela’s house: 1) Walking walk out smelling like sazon, and 2) Listening to a marathon of Caso Cerrado.

    16. If you forget to put on your baby’s azabache, you have basically given it Ebola.

    17. You have given up on asking your family for advice when your children are sick because their remedy is always Vicks Vapor Rub.

    18. You laugh at people that call you a "fake Latina."

    19. Your children are no strangers to a frantic call from their grandmother telling them to wear blue today because Walter Mercado said so.

    20. You have given up on teaching your children about 2nd, 3rd and 4th cousins.

    21. Your family starts asking you when you will baptize your kids five seconds after they are born.

    22. Your kids get nervous when a Spanish song plays at a party because they know that — even though you have a love for J.Crew, the Star Spangled Banner and Apple pie — nothing can stop the beat within your heart.