Guest Contributor: Aaron E. Sanchez

#ChicanoDadProblems are real. For some reason my kids run away when I try to read them Pablo Neruda poems. They’d rather listen to the Frozen soundtrack than Chicano-inspired Son Jarocho.

They showed no interest when I tried to read them Fidel Castro’s obituary at the breakfast table years ago. When my son was little, the violin in Mariachi music made him cry but the fiddle in bluegrass cheered him up.

Now that they’re back in school, there are only more #ChicanoDadProblems to deal with.

Here are a few.

1. Trying too hard to make people know your mixed-race kids are Chicano.