Family

Those of us who have been mothers, surely we remember those days that were endless, when our babies were very young and there were days when we could hardly even shower. I now remember them with nostalgia, although at the time they were anything but idyllic and they were a small sample of how hard parenting can be and the loneliness that can be felt at that time in your life.

The actress and influencer María Castro is committed to breastfeeding, like many other mothers, to feed her two daughters. Olivia, the youngest, is still breastfeeding at only nine months old and accompanies her mother sometimes to make it possible, since the reconciliation of work and motherhood is sometimes a bit complicated.

If there is something that being a mother has taught me, it is that we can all change our minds and I have also learned to understand that sometimes not everything we plan is possible to achieve. Many times we think that things are already written or that they will work as we think, but when we do, we are surprised.

The International Day of Families has been celebrated every May 15 since 1994 when the UN made it official.

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 ...

On March 19 we will celebrate Father's Day, and there are already many children who are preparing a gift in their schools to give to their parents. From personalized mugs, to drawings with their stamped footprints or plasticine figurines. Any gift is worth to surprise dad!

If you have met someone and you hope that after reading this post you will leave convinced that it is easy to build a new family with their children and yours, I am sorry to be the opposite. Of course it is worth it, of course it is feasible, but it involves avoiding stones on the way and the occasional tear that leads you even to think of throwing in the towel.

A report by the Mapfre Foundation and the Spanish Association of Primary Care Pediatrics entitled "Accidents of the Spanish child population", indicates that 9.1 percent of children under 12 years of age stay home alone at some point and these, 5 percent are less than four years old. Even babies less than one year old are left home alone.