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Book
Parenting with Pride
Latino Style
How to
Help Your Child Cherish Your Cultural Values and Succeed in Today’s
World
By Carmen Inoa Vazquez, Ph.D.
Available in English and Spanish
(Ordering link is at bottom of this page)
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.
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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
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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.
Book Reviews
"Though all parents struggle with the difficulties of raising
children, Latino parents often face a special set of challenges that
revolve around the question of assimilation. Some believe that the
only way to make sure their children succeed is to renounce all old
customs. Others work to instill their children with a strong sense
of cultural identity and tradition. Vazquez’s position is
deceptively straightforward: "If you want a ‘piece of the American
pie’ for you and your sons and daughters, you must adjust." But for
her, adjustment is a far cry from renunciation, and she uses her
skills as a psychologist and expert in multicultural issues to teach
parents how to raise children who are bicultural, able to swim with
the sharks but also proud of themselves and their heritage. The
principals of her philosophy are presented using the acronym ORGULLO,
which means "pride" in Spanish. Most of them will be familiar to
readers of parenting books: listen to your child, keep up with media
influences, establish good lines of communication in your family,
etc. But Vazquez (Parenting with Pride) applies these ideas with
exceptional sensitivity to old-school Latin American values, showing
parents how to ease away from an emphasis on total obedience, for
example, without losing their position as their child’s primary
guide and role model. Particularly helpful is her advice on teaching
young children to be bilingual (she’s a strong advocate of the one
person-one language method). Latinos are now the largest minority
group in the United States; for them and for the doctors and
teachers who tend to their children, Vasquez’s book is an
outstanding addition to the parenting reference shelf."
-- Publisher's Weekly
"Parenting with Pride--Latino Style is a beautifully written book
that is essential reading for Latino families. Dr. Carmen Vazquez
has written a valuable guide to parenting in the 21st century. She
weaves her vast knowledge, clinical experience and personal history
into a very easy-to-read and yet important book for Latino
families."
-- Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D.
Arnold and Debbie Simon
Professor
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry;
Founder and Director,
New York University Child Study Center
"Parenting with Pride - Latino Style is a captivating book that
highlights the essential principles of raising a child in today's
society. The author carefully combines her personal experience,
knowledge, and wisdom that comes from being a professional and a
mother. By reading this book, you'll learn basic techniques that
will help you find a harmonious balance between today's modernismo
and the traditional Latino childrearing customs that are a daily
challenge in a multicultural world."
-- Rebeca Sosa
Miami-Dade County Commissioner, District 6
"Integrating culture, parenting and child development, Parenting
with Pride--Latino Style is a primer for bicultural parenting.”
--Jose Szapocznik
Ph.D. Professor and Director
Center for Family Studies
University of Miami School of Medicine
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As you can see, this is a book you
will want and will want to give as gifts to multicultural
parents.
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