Be parents

When the coronavirus arrived, one of the first measures taken to avoid contagion was to close schools and start teleworking, so that millions of parents were locked up trying to raise, educate and work at the same time.

How would you define motherhood or fatherhood in one word? Having a child is one of the most important events in a person's life, and each one has a different definition of it.

Quarantine has taken many things from us, but without a doubt one of the things we miss the most is physical contact with the people we love. Grandparents and grandchildren who can no longer hug, children who cannot hug their parents because they are considered risk groups, children who cannot play with their friends as they used to.

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 ...

Motherhood has taught me many things, but one of the things that has surprised me the most is discovering that, contrary to what I expected, it is children who come to teach us many things about life.

I could not avoid it. As soon as I read the word "Mothers" announcing the new Mediaset series on the Amazon Prime Video platform, I had to click and start watching. With that title it was clear that the protagonists were going to be mothers, so I already sensed that it was going to reach my heart.

The crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic and confinement has upset us all, to a greater or lesser extent. It is clear that some people are better able to cope with adversity while others require professional help at certain times to learn how to cope with difficult times.

While we are living it, it seems impossible to think that even from the most adverse situations something positive can be obtained. And the harsh confinement that has kept us locked up at home for two weeks is no exception and has left us learning about ourselves that will always accompany us and make us go back to these days.