The creation and construction of the family are two of the most wonderful and magical challenges that life can present to us. Why? Because from the first moment, children become the greatest treasure of their parents, in their place in the world, in their home, in their singing, in their entireness.
Creating and loving are two verbs that must go hand in hand, because the vast majority of parents, born of the deepest and most unconditional affection, share their thoughts and emotions with their children, rediscover life, explore the world and change the family. a core of noble values.
- Therefore.
- It is fair to point out that being a parent is not easy.
- Because although the adventure of creation brings people closer to the real world and sets foot on the earth.
- The truth is that educating with love and positive values is one of the most difficult tasks.
“You’ll learn to fly, but your flight won’t fly. You’ll learn to dream, but you won’t dream of your dream. You’ll learn to live, but they won’t live your life. Still? In every flight,” in every life, in every dream, is the seed of the road taught?
-Mother Teresa of Calcutta-
Our lights and shadows are projected individually into the familiar conditions that foster our development, so Kaye’s expression is correct when he says, “The child is placed by the family system in which he was born in the position of apprentice of the system; you can therefore ask yourself what are the characteristics of family systems that will facilitate or prevent the apprentice from becoming an adult capable of constantly evolving or being blinded by this possibility ?
Being a parent is often inherent in restlessness and the need to learn to perform our roles in the best possible way, this implies that we must strengthen our communicative and personal skills in relation to our roles as parents and individuals, so this confluence requires us to approach emotional education from the beginning.
Emotional education begins from birth, as the way parents convey their affection, expectations and beliefs about the child is fundamental to their development, specifically the first years of life are fundamental for several reasons:
For adequate emotional investment in our children’s education, we must address at least five fundamental pillars:
Being the perfect mom or dad 24 hours a day, 365 days a year is a difficult task, so in this sense, we must be fair and admit that not everything is wonderful and that there is no ideal prototype of creation by which we can be guided.
Thus, through direct or indirect experience, we all know that what is important to parents is not that they are people with imperfections and insecurities, but as such, they give children the opportunity to live in a balanced, enriching and emotionally intelligent world.
There is no magic formula for this, but there is one ingredient that shares all good educational principles: infinite love, that feeling is one that increases creative work every day and ensures that parents are able to offer the best of themselves as educators.
Illustrations courtesy of Claudia Tremblay and Victor Rivas Fernandez.