You go down to the beach loaded like a Sherpa towards the conquest of Everest. The word “mom” is the one you hear the most throughout the day (and you probably dream about it while you sleep). If you leave the hotel you must think about meals, plans, changes of clothes, water, wipes, sunscreen, hats (back to sherpa mode), because if you leave something, you can be sure that that is precisely what it will do to you. lack.
Surely if you are a father or mother, this sounds familiar to you and those moments of peace and tranquility may come to your mind in which a towel and a magazine were all you needed to get through the day. But be careful: just like with your arms, this is tricky, because there will come a time (and sooner than you imagine), when you will miss it and your heart will shrink when you remember it.
Holidays are a fundamental moment for them (and for us as a family)
In this frenetic pace of life that we lead, vacations are one of the few moments in which we can really enjoy family time in a relaxed way. It is true that combining school vacations with work vacations can be very stressful (especially if we do not have a family to support us), and that is why it is essential to make the most of the time we can spend together without rushing and without mobiles. They also deserve (and need) to enjoy their parents without us looking at the clock and without us telling them that we can’t play right now.
Childhood is a key stage in their development and in the formation of their personality. Everything they receive at this time will be essential for them to become happy, balanced and secure adults . I am a mother and I know that involving yourself to the maximum can be exhausting, especially when we have so many obligations and we want to fulfill them all at the same time. That is why I conceive the holidays as the necessary period to “recharge” ourselves with the love of our children and strengthen our ties as a family. If that is what I want to live when they are teenagers, that is what I must cultivate in their childhood.
You don’t need to reach the future to realize
Many times we tend to look back and think that knowing what we know now, we would do many things differently: postpartum, with visits, as mothers of babies in arms… and this will also happen when we have adolescent or adult children. and we come across the image of parents making sand castles on the beach with their children. You will think that you were one of them and that I wish you could turn back time to be able to have them so close , so that they would ask you to play with them and laugh when you became a shark that eats tiny feet in the sea.
Therefore, if they still ask you to play, they ask you to build castles, they ask you to become a shark or whatever, live it in the most intense way because in the end that is what remains in your heart and in that of your children . Don’t wait until you have all the time in the world to think about the past: the present is here, it has your child’s smile and it’s up to you to enjoy it.
