Many times we have heard women complain about excessive work, when it comes to combining work outside and work at home. Sometimes attributing this fact to male chauvinism, feeling like victims and perceiving the issue as a fatality. But regardless of what may or may not be true about this issue. Have these ladies wondered that perhaps they are, at least in part, responsible for the inequitable distribution of domestic work? WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ENCOURAGING COLLABORATION Housework: sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, cleaning and similar chores are often unrewarding, mainly because they are monotonous and repetitive. Only the housewife’s…
With the advent of the mobile phone, tablet, computer and video games, in addition to the now old television, many children become addicted, that is: they make excessive use of some of these instruments in a way that hinders their participation in fundamental social and family activities, as well as their integral development. Some parents, with good reason, worry when they see that their children are paying too much attention to these devices. WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT CHILDHOOD TECHNO ADDICTION Sometimes we parents, given our various occupations and wanting to see our children entertained, allow, and even induce, our…
When a child arrives home with poor school grades, parents tend to get very upset and what they usually do is punish him or her severely, which not only does NOT fix the problem, but in fact aggravates it. Facing any domestic event, such as leaks, devices that do not work, etc., the attitude of adults tends to be much more rational; they would usually look for the causes of the problem and based on that investigation, they would fix it. CAUSES OF POOR STUDENT PERFORMANCE When faced with something as sensitive and transcendent as the problems their children…
When parents are told that their child bullies other children at school, we can imagine several reactions, one of them may be to minimize the issue by saying that other children should know how to defend themselves, another reaction could be to experience guilt, shame and perhaps a feeling of helplessness. WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE CHILD BULLY The bully is a child who usually makes simplistic and definitive judgments about others, such as: “those who don’t fight are cowards”, or “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”. In close relation to this, he frequently…
I hope I’m wrong but I feel my young, ten-year old daughter is being sexually abused. She spends too much time on the Internet, seems too precocious sexually and is having trouble at school. Her father tells me I’m making it up, I hope he’s right, but I have serious doubts… You have every right to worry when you believe your 10-year old daughter is sexually precocious, spends way too much time on the Internet, and is beginning to have trouble at school. WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE IN CHILDREN According to Knobel (2021): ¨Sexual abuse is…
This issue has bothered me so much that I find it hard to talk about it, and the thing is that my ten-year-old son Adrian is being bullied at school. This has created so much tension in our home that my husband and I have ended up fighting. He insists that the boy has to learn to fend for himself; he pushes him to not accept being insulted and to answer in the same way. It seems that he’s embarrassed of our boy, and he treats him insensitively, undermining him. Given this, I explain that it is very difficult…