I respect

As parents, it is normal to want our children to have full confidence in us, and to look to us whenever something worries them or they have doubts about how to deal with a problem. But that trust is not obtained overnight, and it is necessary to work from the beginning to obtain it.

Surely at some point you have met a child who did not want to greet you with kisses and hugs. Whether it's your nephew, your grandson, or your best friend's son, sometimes these situations happen, and it's normal to feel hurt when that child you love so much refuses to kiss you.

"Come on, hurry up, we didn't make it to school!", "But do you want to walk faster?", "You've been tying your shoelaces for half an hour!", "But why are you so slow?" ..

There is a phrase that I have always liked and that as a result of becoming a mother made a 'click' inside me. It is the one that says: "love me when I least deserve it, because it will be when I need it most."

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.

Positive Discipline has been sounding loud for a few years, and more and more parents and teachers are interested in its educational principles to apply them in the upbringing and education of children. María Soto, educator in Positive Discipline, founder of Educa Bonito and one of the great references in Spain of this philosophy, is clear that "once you open your eyes to this way of educating you can no longer close them."

The way in which we communicate with our children from birth, and even from when they are inside the womb, leaves a mark on their personality, much more than we think.

I know it is said in a loving way, but I don't quite like it. In fact, I'm not even starting to like it. I am referring to those parents who call their daughters "chochete" and their sons "pichilla", or some variant that comes to say the same.