Be parents

As a mother I have it very clear: we must fight with all our strength to end cyberbullying, a very serious problem of harassment that undermines the psychological health of our children to the point that it even leads them to wish for death. That is why I applaud the useful initiatives aimed at undermining it, because I know that it can happen to any child, seeing the alarming numbers of cases, only in our country.

Being a mother makes us a kind of "todólogas", because it is a role that requires us to transform ourselves into a wide variety of occupations: teachers, nurses, psychologists, cook, decorator, photographers, among many others. And although fulfilling our multiple roles is not always simple and requires a lot of energy and patience, we do it with all our love as a mother.

My baby is about to turn 18 months and I can assure you without fear of being wrong that the expression "when you have a child the days go by very slowly and the years (or months) very fast" is totally true. For me, it's still that baby that fit in my forearm, although now I weigh a quintal and occupy half a bed when he sleeps with us.

Childhood is an age when games, imagination and creativity are more alive than ever. For children, it is a stage of knowledge, discovery and exploration. But without a doubt, it is also a stage full of mischief and occurrences that can leave us with our mouths open. And this was exactly what happened with a mother from Texas, who shared a video with her reaction to discover that after only a few minutes they were alone, her oldest son had shaved his head, and that of his two younger brothers.

After knowing that we are waiting for a baby, one of the first most important decisions we will have to make is to choose the name that will be his whole life. There are many places where we can take inspiration, such as nature, literature or any language we like. However, if you have a preference for a particular letter, our series of baby names from A to Z can give you some ideas.

There are many parents who choose to sleep with their children in the same bed, or by placing a baby cot for their baby. Feeling their smell, their heat and breathing while they sleep is really wonderful, and the colecho has many benefits for everyone as long as it is done safely. But perhaps the colecho is not as idyllic as we would like, and although we do not change it for anything in the world, sleeping with our kids also leaves us tremendously funny scenes.

The Easter holidays, necessary for children and, on many occasions, a real headache for parents have arrived. Again the problem of reconciling work and family life. What to do when there are not as many days off as our children? Well, once again, it is the grandparents who come to the rescue to take care of their grandchildren this school vacation.

It may seem to you that a teenage disappointment in adolescence is something unimportant, something that will easily happen, but when you see your son shattered by that relationship that did not work, by that ex who left him, to whom the heart is broken is you . Having clear what you can do to help him and what you should not do if you do not want to close in band is not easy, so here are some tips.

Young Spaniards do want to have children, although it is clear from the 2018 Fertility Survey, prepared by the National Statistics Institute (INE), they have them every evening. The economic reasons seem to be behind some surprising data: 88.1% of Spanish women between 18 and 30 do not have children, an average that rises to 95.1 percent in the case of men who still do not have offspring at age 30

Two months ago, the Madrid City Council announced that the enrollment of public schools in the city will be completely free from next year 2019-2020, something that affects 69 centers and 8,768 families. Today it is the Governing Council of the Community of Madrid that has approved the decree by which schooling in public nursery schools in the section from zero to three years, will be free from September.

Since social networks are part of our lives, the publications of proud parents abound showing the virtues of their children. And that is what Cristiano Ronaldo should pretend, when he published two days ago, on his Twitter account, a video of him playing with his 22-month-old twins with the comment 'blessed house'.

William Rabillo lives in the United States and is 13 years old, but seeing what he has done, he seems older. At an age when most of the boys spend most of their time tied to video games, he has decided to sell his game console and do garden work for his neighbors, and thus manage to buy a car from his mother.

We talked a lot about the need for work and family reconciliation and the problem that it means for parents to 'get to everything', dedicating time and quality to our children. We know they need us and we don't want to miss the enjoyment with them, but it's not always easy. Given this situation, Unicef ​​Spanish Committee has launched the '# PorlaConciliationReal' campaign, with the intention of asking political parties to engage with parents and their children to achieve a real conciliation.

From April 1, new parents can now enjoy eight weeks of paternity leave. The five-to-eight-week extension that the government established by Royal Decree-Law on March 1 to "guarantee equal treatment and opportunities between women and men in employment" became reality.

Parents are responsible for caring for and giving our children everything they need for their healthy development, from their physical health to their emotional education. And without a doubt, one of the things that most concern us as parents is to make sure our children are happy. It is well known that the first years of life will be the basis for their social and emotional development in the future, so it is extremely important to ensure that we are giving them the necessary tools.

During pregnancy, all attention is directed towards the mother. From asking how she feels, to seeing for her physical and emotional well-being, the pregnant woman becomes the priority for the family and friends around her. However, things become very different when the baby is born. Everyone continues with his life on a regular basis, but for the mother a series of changes and new paths to begin is just beginning.

Today, April 2, the 2018 Income period begins. And this year it has been accompanied by a novelty for those who have been mothers and fathers last year: the Supreme Court ruling issued last October that forced the Agency Tax to return amounts unduly charged to taxpayers for maternity and paternity benefits has an impact on the 2018 income statement.

Making the decision to end a relationship is usually not an easy thing, especially when there are children involved. To the doubts we may have about whether it is better to continue or end, fears are added about the consequences of this change in the lives of children and mourning the idea of ​​family we had and now seems to have Go to waste.

No, their eyes are not seeing double: the test has been positive, they will soon become parents! Now begins a series of preparations and changes in your life, but you should not forget the most important and one of the first things you should do as soon as they know there is a pregnancy: schedule an appointment with the gynecologist.

The first thing I bought when I found out I was pregnant were blue wool booties for my daughter (I love that color). I saw them on the way to work and I could not resist because they were so small ... And the funniest thing of all is that they never got to use them because I tried them on the first day and discovered that they slipped, so they were stored in a drawer with Lots of more clothes.