Send us a text In this episode, we explore how respect was taught and enforced in Latino households — often through silence, obedience, or hierarchy. For many of us, respeto meant knowing your place, not talking back, and putting adults above all. But those lessons, while rooted in love and protection, sometimes came with fear, distance, or misunderstanding. Together, we’ll unpack what respect looked like in our family, what it protected, and what it cost — and how we want to redefine respeto...
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Send us a text In this episode, we explore how respect was taught and enforced in Latino households — often through silence, obedience, or hierarchy. For many of us, respeto meant knowing your place, not talking back, and putting adults above all. But those lessons, while rooted in love and protection, sometimes came with fear, distance, or misunderstanding. Together, we’ll unpack what respect looked like in our family, what it protected, and what it cost — and how we want to redefine respeto...
Episode 14: ¿Salimos Bien? What It Means to Be ‘Okay’ in a Family That Survived So Much
La Mesa con Papi
1 hour 8 minutes
2 months ago
Episode 14: ¿Salimos Bien? What It Means to Be ‘Okay’ in a Family That Survived So Much
Send us a text In this episode of La Mesa con Papi, I sit down with both of my parents to talk about something that haunts a lot of first-gen kids: Did we turn out okay? And what does “okay” even mean when your parents raised you through survival, sacrifice, and silence? We talk about expectations—spoken and unspoken. About what our parents hoped for us, and what we hoped they’d see in us. About the pressure to succeed, to behave, to be the “proof” that all their hard work was worth it. And a...
La Mesa con Papi
Send us a text In this episode, we explore how respect was taught and enforced in Latino households — often through silence, obedience, or hierarchy. For many of us, respeto meant knowing your place, not talking back, and putting adults above all. But those lessons, while rooted in love and protection, sometimes came with fear, distance, or misunderstanding. Together, we’ll unpack what respect looked like in our family, what it protected, and what it cost — and how we want to redefine respeto...
