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They were the pioneers in requesting the return of the withholding of the Personal Income Tax (IRPF). But his petition was prior to the Supreme Court ruling of October 3, 2018, which ruled that maternity benefits are exempt from personal income tax. In November, the Government extended the exemption from the payment of the tax also to paternity leave and public employees, who receive the benefit through mutual labor.

It is clear that work and family reconciliation remains a pending issue, at least in Spain. In an attempt to move towards equality between fathers and mothers, the 'Royal Decree-Law 6/2019, of March 1, on urgent measures to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities between women and men in the employment and occupation '.

We have no doubt about something: all mothers are extraordinary. Maternar is hard work, with many responsibilities that keep us busy throughout the day, but that also fills us with many rewards and rewarding moments next to our children. There is also something very true about motherhood: each woman lives in a unique and different way.

When we have a baby or child who wears a diaper and we go out for a walk with him, we mothers have many options to change him if he gets dirty, because in most bathrooms of many establishments we can find changing tables to do so. However, in the case of parents, it is not so. Therefore, in partnership with singer John Legend, the company of Koala Kare and Donte Palmer, the father who went viral last year by denouncing the absence of changing rooms in male toilets, the Pampers company promised to install 5.

When we expect a baby, there are a number of decisions that we have to make thinking about his future. And one of the most important, and also exciting, is to choose your name. The options are as varied as families exist: there are those who prefer short names, while others opt for compounds.

In these times in which we live in a hurry, we have a thousand activities to do and we must seek a balance between family and work, being able to stay at home with the children is a privilege for many mothers. But like some situations in life, it also has its negative side. Although it does not happen to everyone, the depression of mothers who stay at home is something real and with which many women fight in silence, so we must start talking about this issue with greater openness, but above all, with a lot of understanding

Having a good relationship with children is one of the great aspirations that all parents have. Along the way, many of us wonder if that means becoming friends with our children. Can we - or should - be friends with our children? The idea of ​​pretending to be friends with the children had its beginnings in the framework of the paternity of the 80s and 90s, no doubt as a reaction to that traditional paternity model in which parents provided and disciplined, that in which the Authority status was very marked and emotional was not a main course at the table.

We cannot deny that we are moving along the right path, managing to take steps that are committed to work and family reconciliation, such as the increase in paid weeks of paternity leave. But there is still a lot of work to do. And so is the 'I Study of Conciliation and Family', carried out by the childcare brand Suavinex: 86.3% of families find insufficient measures to reconcile that exist today, such as paid maternity leave or the reduction of working hours up to 12 years of the minor.

Traveling is probably one of the experiences that most people like, and besides being fun and wonderful, it has many benefits. It is definitely an activity that you enjoy a lot, let's do it with family or friends. But when we have babies or toddlers, traveling becomes a bit complicated and even some people think it's not worth doing because they won't remember it.

Dreaming and imagining what our lives will be like when we have our baby is something that many women usually do during pregnancy, while we wait for their arrival. What did you imagine your life would be like before you were a mother? Has everything you planned or planned to be done? The reality is that although we make many plans, things don't always turn out that way.

The end of the course is approaching and again the same position: should we give a gift to the teacher or our child's teacher? There will be parents who, two months earlier, already started a conversation in the WhatsApp groups remembering 'the obligatory' of the gift, although it seems that not everyone agrees or understands this custom.

When choosing what you are going to call your daughter, you have two options: opt for a classic name of 'those that work well' or dare with a more original alternative that will surely mark your child's character. And, if you choose the second option, the names with Q have a lot of prominence.

When a baby is born there are many people around the parents who begin to express their opinions regarding parenting. Family, friends, neighbors ... there is always someone who has something to suggest about how to raise, educate or feed the newborn! Any opinion, expressed from respect and affection, is always welcome.

It's something you should know if you plan to be parents or if you are expecting a baby. Those of you who have a small child know exactly what I mean. You can touch a sleepy little lironcito, but it is normal for the baby to take a lot of sleep from you. According to a study by ESCI (European Institute for Sleep Quality) in the first year of the baby, parents lose more than 700 hours of sleep.

We try to limit the time of use of mobile devices in our children. But what do we do? Do we give you a good example on this topic? The latest study by the Common Sense Media organization 'The new reality: Parents, teenagers, screens and the dream, 2019', seems to indicate that we are losing control.

Wake up the children to go to school, dress them and clean them, prepare lunch for mid-morning, deal with the last minute setbacks ... just by listing the list of tasks that parents have to do before leaving our children in the School is already running out. Not surprisingly, according to a survey conducted in the United States at 2.

Nowadays it is very common to see more parents becoming fully involved and actively participating in the paternity of their children, because as we well know, the upbringing is two. But in addition to taking care of them and attending to their basic needs such as food and rest, parents are also being more involved in something in particular: the care of their children's hair, particularly in the case of those who have daughters.

In recent decades, women around the world have begun to delay their motherhood, waiting more and more time to have children. Therefore, they have begun to inform and create awareness, as well as to publicize possible measures so that this can not affect their future children, such as vitrification or freezing of eggs.

The popular science writer Eduard Punset has died today at 82. On several occasions we have talked about him in Babies and more for being a great student of the baby's brain, and how the experiences in the first years are vital for emotional development. He used to investigate the functioning of the baby's mind and, based on these investigations, gave clues about how parents can act so that children develop and grow emotionally healthy and happy.

"Children are top-notch people and they don't deserve to be yelled at or disrespected." That is the opinion of the psychologist Patricia Ramírez, known for her informative work in the media and in the world of sports. Now, he has taken another step and has decided to offer creative solutions to parents when it comes to educating their children with fun games, where there is no room for authority "because I say so" and screams.