Summer vacations are here, and like every year the eternal dilemma between parents resurfaces: what do we do with the children while we continue working?
I bet that this situation is familiar to more than one: you take your little one to spend the afternoon at the grandparents' house, and when you pick him up a while later he tells you that he has had all kinds of snacks and has played a good time at the game console. Candy and screens! The two unbreakable boundaries in your house have been overlooked while you were with the grandparents, something that particularly bothers you.
It is known that the relationships between daughter-in-law and mother-in-law are not always harmonious or simple, and the title of "mother-in-law" is usually seen with negative overtones (something like what happens with the title of "stepmother").
As parents, we try with all our might to be egalitarian with our children, provide them with the same attention and affection, which they need at all times and not show preferences for one or the other. But what happens when grandparents prove to have a favorite among their grandchildren?
Year after year, with the return to school, parents consider who to turn to in order to reconcile work and childcare: nursery school, a caregiver at home or the support of grandparents.
I'm not a big fan of celebrating "Mother's Day", "Father's Day" or, like today, "Grandparents Day". I think, although of course I can be wrong, that you have to love them and acknowledge their love and work always, and not on specific dates.
The pandemic has changed many things, and one of them is that visits to newborn babies have been suspended, leaving only parents to remain in the hospital with them.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
