Childhood

As you all know today is February 29, which only happens every four years, when we are in a leap year. That is precisely why it is one of the days when less people would want to be born, especially because they cannot celebrate how God sends their birthday, and that is that in the absence of 29, they have to celebrate it on March 1 (some on 28), when It's not really the day they were born.

Continuing with the series of economy posts for children, today we will introduce the concept of pay, salary and savings in our children. Once we have explained to our children what money is and how it works, we have to convey simultaneously that they as such cannot get money for their work because they cannot work.

Imagine the little face that children would have left without one day they receive a letter from their favorite characters, signed and with "photo". Elsa and Ana, Mickey Mouse, Lightning MacQueen, Snow White, the Little Mermaid, Winnie the Pooh ... They are all Disney characters and we can write them to make the kids dream come true.

Within the education we give our children, the teaching of economics is one of the pending subjects in most cases. Teaching how economic relations work, the concept of income and expenditure, the value of things or the concept of money and its use, is not easy to convey or even learn.

It is a fact that as parents we are horrified to know, but unfortunately it is a reality that is there, most of the time, a hidden reality, since by strategies of manipulation of the abuser, children do not dare to tell it. According to the European Council, one in five children is a victim of sexual violence, including sexual abuse.

When it comes to renewing school supplies, an article that cannot be missed is the one to transport the material: books, notebooks, lunch, instruments, towel for Physical Education ... Then, we can ask the question: is a backpack or a cart better? with wheels to take to school? The answer is not simple and we anticipate that it will depend on the weight of the backpack or cart and the child and even the characteristics of the route they have to go to school.

In this whirlwind of feelings, responsibilities, things to do, races to get everywhere and roller coasters of feelings in which fatherhood consists, sometimes I find myself standing still like a fool watching my children, without more, I simply observe and enjoy to see them playing, sleeping, watching a movie or painting, there they are, they are my children and I could spend the morning watching them.

Mila is a 3-year-old girl, a fan of 'Maroon 5', who became famous a couple of weeks ago for crying disconsolately to learn that Adam Levine, the singer, had married. The video was so emotional for Levine that he did not hesitate to accept an invitation to Ellen's program to meet little Mila, his little "girlfriend", that moment you can see it in the video you have below.

Today I saw this video with which I laughed a lot, in which Jimmy Kimmel, the American presenter and comedian (of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! Program), pretends to be a detective by submitting an interrogation of a 7-year-old boy, With a false lie detector. Everything starts quite seriously, with logical questions and that one can wait for in an interrogation, until they start to baffle him with a simple sum: 8 + 8?

Today is the International Day of the Elderly and to celebrate it we have brought you several images that show the greatest contrast in terms of age within families, that of newborn babies, or children, with their great-grandmothers, already in the last years of his life, with the luck (both) of knowing each other, having two generations in between.

What does this child know about war? What do you know about what is happening? He must be only three or four years old and all he knows is that he should be at home, safe and secure with his family. Instead, he is trying to cross Europe in a crucis way to a better destination without understanding very well why.

Last week much of the world was paralyzed with the image of little Aylan, returned to the shore by the same sea where he lost his life with his sister and his mother, alone, without protection, a macabre reflection of the reality that they are living many other children like him. But it is not only Aylan or the 13 million children who, like him, are suffering the blows of a war, - enough of putting on makeup calling it conflict, it is a war -, there are many others, there are other photos that are not cover: millions of children throughout the world they are in danger, due to wars, persecutions, famines, droughts or child trafficking.

Isn't it true that when you read the entry we wrote two days ago explaining that a study confirmed that babies behave worse with their mothers, did you think it was true? Don't worry, you're not the only one. I also believed it, like thousands of people who shared it and hundreds of pages that, like us, explained the news and spread it.

You have been working for a few days and your son has been staying at your mother's house for those same days. You almost pray that everything goes well when you leave him, because at home you know, he barely eats, he mounts you scenes that it seems that with 1 year he is already a small teenager and now, since you leave him, it seems that the thing is getting worse .

A new season arrives, the school year begins and it is time to renew the costumes. Even if they do not go to school, summer gives way to autumn and the feet are no longer uncovered. But will the new shoes last until winter? How to know when the child needs to change shoes? When they are young and start walking they already need shoes (not before!

Car loaded, children tied. We put first and begin the journey towards the long-awaited family vacation. We know that at some point our offspring will ask the million dollar question, it is only a matter of time ... Do you know how long it takes for children to ask "how much is missing" when we drive?

We had not seen an image that conveyed so much. He had no intention of doing so, he is not posing or doing it so that no one praises him or acknowledges his effort, but without wanting to, indirectly, he has become an inspiration to thousands of people. He is a child at a handmade wooden table, sitting on his legs, concentrating doing his homework at night, taking advantage of the light of a McDonald's, fighting for his future.

Sometimes I wonder: what world do we live in? And I choose not to answer because I could spend hours, days and weeks trying to analyze it, without being able to arrive at a clear answer. Of course, without being able to reach it, I can say that something we are doing very badly if a child can feel like the child you see in this photo.

Seeing the images does not seem to be a great danger, but you can judge for yourself. The girl is an expert climbing and surely I would need more protection than her to get up that small wall. This is a small 19-month-old whose climbing feat has been shared by millions of people on Facebook.

Every four minutes a child dies prematurely on some road in the world. Other hundreds suffer trauma, many of them serious. With these shocking data, a document prepared by WHO begins to raise awareness about the importance of controlling road safety and legislating to avoid thousands of deaths of children per year.