This week on Yo Quiero Dinero I sat down with Leslie Priscilla, a Parent Coach, founder of Latinx Parenting, and author of the brand-new book CHANCLA: Healing Our Families, Ourselves, and Our Culture. Together we talk about the things that aren’t always so easy when it comes Latino parenting: the good, the bad, and la chancla itself. We're getting into intergenerational trauma, why "gentle parenting" content ignores the reality Latina moms actually live in, what reparenting really looks like day to day, and how the money scarcity messaging we grew up with shapes our kids for life. Don’t sleep on this one!
WE GET INTO:
1:13 Latino Parenting & Breaking Cycles
2:15 Leslie’s Parenting Journey
6:58 Parenting with Compassion Under Pressure
18:11 Why La Chancla? Reclaiming a Cultural Symbol
24:51 Setting Boundaries in Multigenerational Families
35:36 Reparenting Yourself
44:39 Healing When Parents Won’t Take Accountability
45:39 Scarcity, Money & Self-Worth
49:15 Raising Kids to Question Authority
56:46 Building Self-Worth & Emotional Safety
1:03:28 A New Vision for Latino Family Healing
1:07:22 Where to Find Leslie & the Book
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
→ All behavior (yours and your kid's) is a strategy to meet a need and reframing "bad behavior" this way changes everything.
→ Reclaiming la chancla means aiming it at the systems (patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy, harmful religious dogma) instead of at your kids.
→ Reparenting isn't about indulging your inner child; it's a disciplined practice of asking "what would be loving right now?"
→ You can't control how your parents or grandparents react to you parenting differently — but you can still do it differently.
→ Scarcity language ("we don't have money") shapes a kid's relationship to money and self-worth long into adulthood.
→ Respect ≠ obedience. Teaching kids to question authority is a survival skill, not disrespect.
CONNECT WITH LESLIE:
– Latinx Parenting: https://latinxparenting.org
– Buy the book: https://latinxparenting.org/chancla-book/
– Follow Leslie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latinxparenting
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