Season One Recap!

They need gear for sleeping, feeding, transporting, dressing, cleaning, entertaining, and more, and as they grow it just accumulates!

Rather than discuss our relationships with our mothers, we poured cocktails and decided to watch Bad Moms instead.

People love a party and a quinceañera is a party on crack. For this week’s podcast we interview Jesse Garcia, the star of Quinceañera (2006).

The thing is that no matter what advice you get, what books you read, what mother adjacent experience you may have had, nothing can prepare you for the realities of becoming a first time mom.

Politicians, marketers, content creators want to speak to us, and appeal to us, because we are a fast growing population who will soon be approaching our peak earning years.

One of the hardest things we have ever had to do was make mom friends. We are being very deliberate about not just saying friends, because a mom friend is very specific.

Representation of Latino women in the media has been stereotypical at best

Our lives are filled with so many superstitions. Even today, when we consider ourselves more educated because of the advancements in science and technology, we partake in superstitious rituals just in case.

In the Latina motherhood system the seven deadly sins are considered especially heinous. In Southern California, the dedicated podcasters who confess these scandalous stories are members of an elite squad known as the Mamá Cita Podcast.

Be a "good girl." What does this even mean?

We are thankful that our kids are growing up in an era when the world view is shifting on so many topics, specifically those around gender.

As a mom with 2 small children during a pandemic, this is what I am supposed to do right, complain? I don’t know, I can’t… It’s hard because my kids are great, but yes, it has been extremely hard to be a mom during the pandemic.

Valentine's Day has always been a downer. Our ideas and expectations of romantic love will never live up to reality and this hyped up holiday is not doing anyone any favors, but rather creating more reasons to feel bad about ourselves and our love lives.

Being a mom is hard. It’s amazing and beautiful, yes... But also exhausting and challenging! Especially when you’re a single mom.

Our mothers didn’t worry about screen time in the same way we do because there were not that many screens around, or so much content created by people who were not being regulated.

My guess is that we are not raising our kids with the same food traditions that we grew up with because so much has changed in the food industry, we are better educated about food and its effect on our bodies, and we have culinary lifestyle choices that were not available to previous generations.

Latin mamas, then and now, have felt a great cultural pressure to participate in some kind of religious practice. Do you see your religious practice as a way to teach your Latin culture and less really about the actual religion? How are you teaching your kids about religion? Are you, or will you give your kids the autonomy to choose?

How much do you talk to your children? The modern American mother that I am becoming talks all the time. The traditional Latina mother that I was raised by did not. Open and honest communication, building a relationship based on trust and respect, all skills I had to figure out along the way, and definitely not what came naturally when I began my parenting journey.

There were so many things I didn’t know. I read so much about parenting, a little about giving birth, and nothing regarding post birth. What do you wish someone had told you about the postpartum experience?