Ok I am a bilingual mom…. What does that mean you ask well let me enlighten you. It means that when I reprimand my child in public I do in another language not so you think I am taking about you but so you don’t understand the threat that is coming her way and call :the man” on me. Yes that’s right I have a well behaved child and she got that way though lots of threats and lots of coercion happening in a foreign language. I mean really I was walking through a store the other day and little boy literally through a shoe at his mom and proceeded to drop to the floor kicking and screaming and making a general fool of himself. I then looked at the not so young mother who had 2 other children with her and she looked mortified. My little buttercup pulled my arm and said to me:I would so be getting a pela con chancleta (spanking with a flip flop, which I have never done but have threatened to do as many a Latin mom has) if I did that.” I just smiled at her. The child knows folks! The phrase itself doesn’t sound as pretty or strike the same sense of doom in a child. So I take this opportunity to thank my mom for introducing into the “pela con la chancleta” it worked for me;)
NOTE: do not send me hate messages about abusing my child. I would like to state that I have never hit my child and never will but she does not know that.
