Opinion


History of a challenge: right to education

History of a challenge: right to education

Malala Yousafzai was born in 1997 in Mingora (Pakistan), and in October 2014, at age 17, he received the Nobel Peace Prize and became the youngest person awarded with this award in any of its...

See them coming ... when we are boyfriends

See them coming ... when we are boyfriends

A few years ago - before the "moves" that now shake us? I picked up a sentence, of those that are recorded, to make use of it many times: the education of the children begins several years before...

How to teach them to accept their failures?

How to teach them to accept their failures?

Before Christmas arrives, we have to overcome an important annual procedure: the arrival of the school's grades. And they are not always good, sometimes they are darn bad or, at least, worse than...

How to prepare a Christmas to help us improve?

How to prepare a Christmas to help us improve?

And suddenly, when we still believed that this had just begun, Christmas has arrived. It has been without realizing it. In a few weeks, our environment has filled to unsuspected limits of cloying...

The hard and the mature

The hard and the mature

Critics say that it is too easy to talk about our own experiences in the first person. However this time I will make an exception to comment on some experience that has made me think honestly and...

Optimism in difficult times

Optimism in difficult times

Of Norman Foster his biographers say that he was born on the wrong side of the railroad tracks that separate the center of Manchester from the humid and cold suburbs of the city.It runs the year...

The 'tiger parents' who want hyper-prepared children

The 'tiger parents' who want hyper-prepared children

The extracurricular is a world apart. We commented the other day several mothers that this, in our childhood, was neither like that nor similar. But of course, our saints did not have to do the pine...

How to get punctual without being rushed?

How to get punctual without being rushed?

The children are the mirror in which parents see themselves reflected: in the good and in the bad. That's what happened to me when, a while ago, my daughters played dolls and exercised as imaginary...

Happiness in the couple, an indecipherable mystery

Happiness in the couple, an indecipherable mystery

Years ago I wrote a book about marriage that I dedicated To my wife, that charming and eternal mystery. We had just celebrated the silver jubilee and thought I could string together some ideas that...

Recreation, much more important than we think

Recreation, much more important than we think

On the first autumnal afternoon of the very long summer, a mother confesses to me, prey to an incomprehensible anxiety, that she is very worried about the cold that her son can spend, a boy of the...

What do our children need to study well?

What do our children need to study well?

Come now! How, in order to study, do they need to have an environment of general manager of a multinational company around them? To me all that "an auspicious environment, direct light, if possible...

Children always in party

Children always in party

Autumn is synonymous with returning to the classroom, to work, to the tasks that require our effort. In our role as parents we have to achieve the challenge of awakening in our children the true...

How to get children to tell us their day

How to get children to tell us their day

If I had to synthesize a day in my children's school, I am convinced that I can do it with the most appropriate term: it is "the school of La Nada". Why every time I ask them how it has gone, I...