Mary He has a three and a half year old daughter. It has been organized with three friends who also have children around the same age so that every week, from 9 to 1, the children are in a house. They rotate and so each one has three weeks a month with free mornings for their respective jobs.
Sergio he is a divorced father, the week that his children live with him, he has organized with his brother so that in the afternoon he picks them up from school and takes them home, the uncle and the nephews are together for an hour until Sergio arrives after from work.
How many people involved in raising children in a society of civilized calls like ours? And above all, really, How many people do we and our children need so that their education and socialization have a positive impact on their happiness? Have we ever seriously considered it?
Luis and Pilar They need Luis' mother to take the children to school two days a week, when they go to work earlier and in the afternoon Luis and others Pilar leave before work to pick them up from school and take them to English at one and piano to the other.
When any of the children mentioned is bad, reorganization is essential and it's time to call family, friends or each other's work to find the best solution.
Touch pull “the tribe” or whatever we want to call it and these days talking about the tribe seems to be more fashionable than ever following a spontaneous response from a woman, a politician, Anna Gabriel.
Charles He goes to school at half past seven in the morning, has breakfast in the school canteen before school starts like other children whose parents have to leave the center before the rest because they must go to work. Carlos leaves school at five in the afternoon, carries house keys hanging around his neck because when he arrives he is only around an hour until his mother arrives from work.
Breed in tribe
Anna Gabriel's personal reflection on educating and raising her children in a kind of “tribe” seems that she has not sat very well with many people who heard her or who read her words in the publications that made different media.
@MamaGnomo of course, every day I hallucinate more, says that the family is not suitable for society or something
- malasmadres (@malasmadres) May 12, 2016
We can understand as "tribe" to set of people who participate in the upbringing of our children maybe and even their education. From the grandmother to the uncle to the friend to the extracurricular teacher ... are they not part of one way or another of that tribe that is essential to us in order to make the raising of our children compatible with our working life?
My brother-in-law says that he does not want his son to be educated as Anna Gabriel says but leaves him at 8 in the nursery and x in the afternoon at grandma's house
- Toni Roderic | LV (@TRoderic) May 11, 2016
Marine She is a single mother and her daughter Lucia has to wait for the neighbor from above to come to her house to pick her up to go to school with her children, she watches the drawings on TV while her neighbor arrives because her mother leaves very early to work to be able to go after her when she leaves school. The days that her mother has a meeting at work her aunt Lola goes to look for her at school and invites her to snack, that day is great because ballet classes are always skipped, other days her grandmother Carmen goes and although Lucia likes it , grandma does take her to ballet.
The traditional family as we understand it has changed a lot in recent years The father as the head of a traditional family, the mother as an affective and functional support of the structure and the children, has ceased to be a reference for millions of people in the world. It is not so complicated to appreciate these changes, nor is it to realize that this family paradigm has not been so long accompanying us from the historical point of view.
Gael He is delighted that his stepbrother Pedro goes to look for him at school on Wednesdays. He is the son of Fernando, his mother's husband. Since Fernando went to live with them now there are many at home, there is Pedro who is 17 years old, Carla of 13, he of 8 and his new brother Ariel of 5 that next year starts primary. Now there are many, when they lived with their father, the afternoons were very boring because many times he was alone, now no longer, there is always someone at home although not always his mother or his new father.
What bothers us?
@Rita_Maestre We must vindicate (yes, still) the debate, the criticism and the desire to change what we want. A hug to continue supporting
- Anna Gabriel Sabaté (@AnnaGaSabate) May 11, 2016
Does it bother us that he thinks of something or that he thinks in a different way from us, or does it bother us that we feel as an obligation what someone exposes as an opinion?
There are few recent mothers who come to foster groups, to talks in nursery schools, to breastfeeding workshops looking for exactly that: the company of "the tribe", the support, the advice, the consolation sometimes and even the discordant opinion within the respect and the argumentation because that is what basically makes us stronger, we are social animals and in this of the raising, also.
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