The Deception of Perfection: What Happiness Gurus Don’t Tell You
Last month I wrote an article in this newspaper that went viral in which I explained that I had been ...
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How to help a child navigate their parents’ divorce effectively and non-traumatically
Divorce often ends in unhealthy and unhappy unions. What may initially seem negative, harmful and even very sad, especially when ...
Men also have a biological clock: these are the problems that come from having an older father
There is a lot of talk about a woman's biological clock and how age affects the chances of pregnancy. But ...
Letter to my disabled son: the role of siblings of a child with a rare disease
Dear Alvarete,It's 11am on Sunday, we've been awake for six hours and you finally give me a break, you've just ...
Five points in favor and six against giving your child a weekly allowance
Children are consumers because they have learned it from adults. They ask you for ice cream or candy or toys ...
Mar Benegas, writer: “I remember a girl who told me: ‘I want to be a telephone so that my mother can look at me’”
Mar Benegas (Valencia, 48 years old) is a woman who cares for and values childhood, who speaks slowly and recites ...
‘Kinkeeping’, the exhausting invisible work that keeps the family together
Ana Torrado, a 52-year-old administrative worker from Madrid, had no idea what the skincare until a minute ago. “But now ...
Luis Castellanos, philosopher: “The great challenge of humanity is to raise our children in goodness”
The philosopher and writer Luis Castellanos (Madrid, 69 years old) is the author of The science of positive language, The ...
If your child is not obedient, perhaps you demand too much from him for his age and he does not understand you.
Educating means for parents to face their children's tantrums, endure shouting, deal with them breaking the rules or established limits. ...
Orchid children: the most sensitive of highly sensitive children
The sensitivity that a child develops is a product of his or her genetics, the environment that surrounds him or ...