Michelle Lewin Instagram Stories, September 3, 2026

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Michelle Lewin's Venezuelan childhood book trauma

Michelle Lewin pulls out her childhood copy of 'Angelito', a Venezuelan kids' book that basically every 80s and 90s kid from Venezuela grew up fearing, and the nostalgia hits hard. She jokes that the book should have been called something else entirely given the generational trauma it caused, and reflects on how different parenting looked back then without the information parents have today. She also recommends a colorful bilingual activity book with buttons, clocks, letters, and numbers that her son started loving around age three and a half.

TopicsVenezuelan childhoodparentingkids booksnostalgia