The Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has just recently returned to talk about her choice to bring her daughter Ginevra with her on her trip to China. It is not the first time that this has happened and that her choice has sparked a debate between those who approve of Meloni’s vision as a mother and those who criticize her. “Should I have left my daughter at home, perhaps at a friend’s house?”, objected the Prime Minister, saying she was convinced that “every mother knows what is best for her offspring and should choose freely”. And she also added an element: “If I, who am Prime Minister, can demonstrate that my role is compatible with motherhood, then there will be no more excuses for those who use motherhood as a pretext for not advancing women in the workplace”. For pediatrician Italo Farnetani, the Prime Minister’s line of having her daughter accompany her on her business trips is to be supported, but not only for a question of work-life balance.
“Everyone has approached the problem from the point of view of adults – she comments to Adnkronos Salute – and how a woman can make a job at a higher level coexist with motherhood. However no one has addressed the issue from the child’s point of view“. For Farnetani, it should also be highlighted that the little girl “will certainly have returned home” with an invisible extra baggage: “An increased psychological development – explains the pediatrician – due to the stimuli coming from new environments, new people, new habits that she will have observed”. But the expert assures: everyone can be ‘Meloni’s children’. In the sense that there is no need to go thousands and thousands of kilometers away. “The stimuli that come from knowing new environments, habits and people are not limited exclusively to a trip made with the Prime Minister’s mother” to China or other remote destinations, “but are available to every child even if the new environments are close to home”, notes the full professor of Pediatrics at the Ludes-United Campus of Malta University.
In other words, the important thing is to nourish young brains with experiencesis “being able to obtain new socio-cultural and environmental stimulation. The child’s brain – explains Farnetani – takes in these notions which will therefore increase its archive of knowledge and experiences”. Hence an appeal: “In this period in which the majority of children will spend a few days of vacation in external environments and different from home, all of them will find themselves in a similar situation. Perhaps in a different context from the one Meloni’s daughter experienced, but all experiences are important. I therefore invite all parents, whether they go on vacation or stay in the city, to take advantage of these days of vacation or rest – even if partial – to introduce their children to new environments and realities”.
#Giorgia #Meloni #Travels #Daughter #Ginevra #China #Pediatrician #Thinks
