Coming to terms with raising a new generation has also meant revisiting her own childhood.
to protest the treatment of immigrants by the American government and border patrol.
But coming to terms with raising a new generation has also meant revisiting her own childhood. Growing up in what she was a typical working-class Puerto Rican household in the Bronx, Lopez says she's now learning to balance her roots with her own style of parenting.have to fight for things, because then you don't learn how to be a fighter . . . I had to learn how to be a fighter. I wanted to give them a life that I didn't have, but [my kids] don't get to have the experience of something that is also helpful, which is developing that survivalist mentality.
"I'll stress to [my kids], like, I want you to do well in school . . . and then my son always finishes the sentence. He goes, 'But you care more that we're good people.' I say, 'That's right. I do,'" she says. One of the best parts of parenting, though, is realizing that your kids are teaching you just as much as you're teaching them, Lopez says."You pass on all the things that you know, all the knowledge you have. But at the end of the day they wind up teaching you so much and reminding you of the things you need to know about life and how to love somebody and how to care for people, that in your 20s and 30s, as you're doing your own thing, you can lose sight of.
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