Recommended readings

A fascinating book "When the grass is green: the Indian child" has fallen into my hands, which introduces us, rather than as an anthropological study, as a direct approach, to raising children in American redskins, at that time They lived in the middle of nature. The data, although partial, offer us, with a translated compilation of texts written by the Indians of the time and accompanied by photos of Indian children, an approach to another way of raising, in the background very human and close by it.

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He has not yet arrived in Spain but it will certainly not take long. This is the new obstetrician book referring to natural childbirth, Michel Odent, which has been published in English and will be a new reflection and a challenge for childbirth care medicine today. It is titled "Childbirth in the age of plastics", that is "The birth in the era of plastics".

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One of the behaviors that most concern parents and least tolerate society are the so-called tantrums. They worry parents because they are times when children do not attend to reasons, cry inconsolably and are able to "break everything." And I say that society does not tolerate them well, because the most common at times like this is that people stop to observe the scene to observe what happens and how the mother or father will solve it.

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One of the issues that we frequently bring to the blog is the importance of children traveling by car subject to an adequate retention system. The Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) has just published a guide to child restraint systems with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Policy and Equality.

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I confess very little to the gurus of the upbringing and especially of the uncritical worship about them. Let's not talk about Estivill, whom I hate, or the varied super nannies who advocate letting children deal with their negative emotions to show them that we send adults. I mean the ones I identify most with my ideas and my way of raising.

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Having a child is an experience that is a radical change for most fathers and mothers. Suddenly a creature appears in your monotonous but controlled life that dismantles your schedules and daily depletes your energies to the point that there are days that you have not just seen the light at the end of the tunnel. If this happens with many of the people who have our whole body and our senses one hundred percent of our abilities, imagine what it can be like to have a child when you are Estrella Gil, a woman who has a cerebral palsy due to a bad praxis at birth that caused him a disability of ninety percent and that he needs a walker or a wheelchair to get around.

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Most of the funny books that raise the doubts and problems of first-time parents often do so with a tone that does not stop being annoying, with comments that qualify the baby with words not pleasant or present as a born manipulator. But today I present a book by the psychologist Rosa Jové illustrated by Forges called "Cariño y Teta, clumsy manual" that offers a different vision.

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I have finished Elsa Punset's book "Radical Innocence" and of course I recommend it to everyone. It is a very beautiful work, in its content, in its objective and also in the style used, which reveals the emotions and strategies that, due to the attention received in childhood, we developed to relate to life.

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Surely you have seen on more than one occasion in the following situation: the child goes through gastroenteritis and has no appetite. In addition, the proper diet may not be too attractive ... The book "Appetizing recipes for when you do not feel like eating anything (due to gastroenteritis)" can be useful for this to happen to a lesser extent.

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Many times parents feel disoriented about how to talk about sexuality with our children. The Ministry of Education has published a sex education guide for parents of young children, but also for teachers and caregivers, which can be very useful to know how to address this issue.

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Home birth is an option that currently has more and more support and follow-up. For this reason it is common to find guides for home birth that offer information to women and professionals who consider this option. Today we are talking about a new guide published by Educer that we can consult online.

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Adoption is an increasingly widespread and accepted reality in our society, but it is a long and sometimes hard road that for most is unknown to us. “Children of colors. Everything you need to know about adoption ”is a beautifully illustrated adoption guide. The book includes the testimony of six families, including a single mother, who have fulfilled the greatest of her dreams, overcoming all obstacles, waiting and administrative obstacles.

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Today we want to dedicate another space in the blog to the well-being of the pregnant woman, and if we have already told you about a relaxation activity, now we are going to complete that well-being with a massage. "Massages during pregnancy" is an editorial novelty that may be interesting for future moms.

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Adolfo Gomez Papì is a pediatric neonatologist and develops his professional work in the Pediatric Service of the Hospital Juan XIII of Tarragona, in addition to being a university professor and member of the Breastfeeding Committee of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics and the Training Group of the Initiative for the Humanization of Birth and Lactation Assistance.

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If mom likes to read, what better gift than a book dedicated to motherhood. Here you have some book ideas for Mother's Day. Works that reflect on being mothers, literary fiction dedicated to them, works that prepare us to be, books in which to record the evolution of pregnancy, the essentials of parenting with attachment, baby diaries to make their first months indelible, the late motherhood seen with carelessness and humor ... What will be the book that mom will like the most?

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Dr. Valentín Fuster, with the help of the Sesame Street characters, has written Supersan Monsters in order to help parents and children learn healthy living habits for a good quality of life. Since habits are acquired at an early age, it is when children are young, the best opportunity to teach healthy patterns that they will maintain for the rest of their lives.

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These days I have started reading a book that may interest our readers. This is "The role of the father", by Kyle D. Pruett, a work that analyzes the paternal importance in the development of the child in different family situations. It is a book that delves into the characteristics of the father-son bond, the fundamental relationship to develop in children a greater emotional balance and greater self-confidence.

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Bru Rovira is a reporter who has collected photographs of his travels since 2001. Photographs that represent motherhood in different parts of the world. Fruit of this compilation arises "Maternities", an extensive collection of photographs that represent motherhood. We already told you that "Maternities" is presented in the form of an exhibition, although I have resumed this news by reading a report about his book.

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