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The pandemic changed everyone's life, from the way we work to the way our children receive their education. For some months, children from all over the world continued their classes from home, and although in some countries they have already resumed face-to-face classes, there are others who are still learning online.

A child who feels safe with his parents will soon want to explore the world around him and begin his journey towards autonomy with small steps. If we encourage our children to be autonomous, we will be helping them to gain maturity and feel capable of doing things for themselves, which will have a very positive impact on their self-esteem. And they need that self-esteem to feel happy and secure in all their actions. But how can we promote the autonomy of our children?

Few famous people raised such a stir and captured so much public attention as the American actress Meghan Markle when announcing her relationship with British Prince Harry. Her engagement, wedding, pregnancy and the birth of her first child Archie in May 2019, were followed by millions of people around the world.

All of us who have had more than one child have found that children are not alike, and that the way of raising one does not work for another, or that with a baby and a small child your way of dealing with their development changes. Besides, we have already learned with the first one and we no longer aspire for everything to be perfect. Even so, it is gratifying to hear from celebrities how life has changed after the birth of their second child and to see that they too are stressed and have to adapt to their new motherhood.

Little by little, society is waking up to physical punishment towards children if we compare it with previous generations. But unfortunately, it is still a fairly well-established practice that is not entirely frowned upon depending on what cases, and that causes damage and entails both physical and psychological consequences in the little ones.

In Bebés y Más we have published adoption stories on several occasions that have fascinated us and have touched our hearts for some special reason. Today we bring you one of those stories starring a brave, determined, dedicated woman capable of changing the world with her incredible generosity.

Family models are constantly changing. In fact, single-parent families are becoming more frequent every day, especially those formed by single mothers by choice.

Parenting is more than just providing, caring for, and making sure our children are healthy. Also, it is educating and raising those little people who will be adults tomorrow, and an important part of this is teaching them values and giving them important life lessons.