Be parents

You just have to take a look around us to realize how much the family model has changed in our country in recent years. Traditional families with one or more children now coexist with childless marriages, parents with children without a marriage bond, single-parent families, rebuilt families, transnational families, homosexual couples with children ...

Some time ago we told you that pediatricians recommend that fathers spend time with their children because their way of treating them is different from that of mothers. Now we present to you a positive effect of the active presence of parents in the lives of their children.

It's time for the baby's bath and the house is upside down. You have to do a thousand things and your partner has told you that he takes care of the bathtub moment while you make dinner. It sounds good to you, so you get to work ... but at a time when you go to the bathroom to see how everything is going, you find that it is already taking it out, but you notice some fluff peeking out from the fold of its small neck. You silently grumble and say, "Let me finish it," as you settle in to bathe him again. If this scene sounds familiar to you, you may be one of those mothers who find it difficult to delegate, and who in the long run, can be overcome by the inequality in the distribution of tasks.

Much has been written about how birth order influences children's behavior. And it is that since they are born, our children develop their character based on what surrounds them, influenced by the environment and by the way we address them.

You have heard on occasion of the idealization of fatherhood and motherhood. Perfect images come to mind of smiling fathers and mothers, fast asleep, in their tidy houses with their clean and demure children. We all know that the reality of being parents is not that, but rather the opposite. Well, that, the opposite, is what these 21 funny pictures show about the less kind side of having children.

The subject of consent is one that has begun to be talked about a lot on social networks in recent years. For those of us who have children, we must educate them so that they know this concept well, both so that they know how to set limits and protect themselves, and so that they learn to respect those of others.

Choosing your daughter's name can be an odyssey if you don't have it clear before pregnancy. Even if you are clear about it, you can have problems, because the decision is a matter of two and sometimes the other can tell you that of "no, I know someone who is called that and ..." and then you have to find another name, sometimes even by going to books or lists of names.

The popular baby name website Nameberry has released the list of the most popular baby names of 2015 (in English) based on searches registered during the first half of the year.