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Preparing Niños for Mexico

October 7, 2024
Ruth Tejada shares her tips on how to prepare your kids for a trip to Mexico.
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Traveling with kids can be tough,
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especially when going to another country.
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So our next guest,
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Ruth Tejera and Johnny Sanders decided to take marriage into their own
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hands and began to train the little Alexander for his trip to
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Mexico. Thank you guys for coming.
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Here we go. When party specifically start training your sons for
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Mexico. Oh, because we have a lot of costumbre and
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so I want them to,
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you know, know them as well as the American culture.
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So that's why I wanted,
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you know, you're Mexican,
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you have to speak Spanish too and you know,
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you have to know all these things.
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So Alexander is already bilingual.
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Yes. Hi, Ola,
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what lessons specifically do you focus on for this trip to Mexico
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So you have a few things here.
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You can, you mind explaining the whole set up.
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This is for when you go to a restaurant,
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like sometimes they are going to give you a soda and a
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boa because, well,
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it's because I think they have to return.
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This is a Mexican to go cup.
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Exactly. Exactly. Yes.
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You talking about, I'm like,
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oh, and then I'm going to go.
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All right. So we have and Coca and then we have
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this is thank you,
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you know, over there you have to buy your tortillas in
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la tortillaria. So you have to take your own napkin and
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then you put it on there and they put the tortillas in
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here like on here and they just cover them like this.
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I used to do this when I was a little girl all
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the time. My mom would tell me to the tortillaria and
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I would be like with my,
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with my napkin, you know.
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Yeah, there and this kind of scares me because I kind
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of know where we're going with this one as a Mexican.
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I have to have a lava in my house.
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So over there in Mexico it's very common that you have a
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lava. So may Aita would say to wash white clothes like
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canines and stuff like that.
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It's better if you want.
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All right. So we have you got Alexander.
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He wants some soda in the bag man.
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Alexander. You want some soda?
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It's actually going to be his first time drinking soda.
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Yeah. Yeah, of course.
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Don't worry. Let's see if he's like you want to taste
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it. Let's go.
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Do you like it?
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So all this prep and you know,
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training, I guess you can say,
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do you think it made a difference for your trip with Alexander
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Well, I think so especially.
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Oh yeah, especially because I always tell him Mijo you to
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10 Espanol. Espanol.
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It's just really nice to speak both languages,
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you know. No.
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Yeah. I think you get to converse and even though it's
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just a language specifically,
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but like you experience more of that culture as well,
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it kind of comes with it,
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right? The right being Mexican,
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you know, and everything and even like this Latino because sometimes
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you talk to other people that aren't silly Mexican.
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But again, knowing that language,
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I feel like open that door for you.
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Yeah, of course.
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Yeah, that's awesome.
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Did he pass the Mexican check?
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I think. So.
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Do you think he,
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I think he's still small but you know,
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I mean, I think he knows a lot of words,
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right? So he's already got me be with my Noa Spanish
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So for me it's like they had to speak Spanish.
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Maybe they can be a little bit nosa kids.
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You know what is something like when you say like for example
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you say a word but it's OK.
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It's OK. It's just that when you go to Mexico,
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like if you're going to Mexico,
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you need to say the word like estacion because if you say
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they're going to be like,
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what is that? You know,
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there's no, so I feel like it's all good.
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It's you as the parents instill that culture in him.
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Again, the tortilla culture,
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the boa these little experiences are going to eventually leave a mark
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on him. And I think it's fun.
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It's fun. I think we're having fun and it's funny that
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you mentioned that you don't want him to be no Savo or
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not even that, but speak incorrect Spanish because you go over
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there, they speak English now.
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They're like, no se com and I'm like,
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wait, why are you guys now using English?
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OK, cool. So,
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I think they call them the weans,
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Ians when you're trying to speak English and Spanish over there.
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they're whites. Yeah,
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definitely. So again,
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it's like no Sao Wean,
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they're all the same and we're all Latino.
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All right. Well,
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I mean, honestly,
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I feel like it's a good starter pack for myself.
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So I'm going to make sure I remember all this when I
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go to Mexico in a few months,
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you need this. I need that.
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I'll try to pack that.
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At least you're going to need this for not going to hit
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the same. And where can people find you on social media
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It's just for me,
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for me, Johnny Sanders,
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Jon Isa Ndez and Xander.
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We're going to have a social for Xander soon.
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He's getting popular with the B All right guys.
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Will you have it?
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Show him some love and we'll see you guys in Mexico maybe
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Thank you guys.
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Thank you.