Leí en estos días la publicación de @helimar con el tema de Educación para padres y me quedé pensando en muchas cosas que me están pasando y quisiera comentar con todos ustedes.
Hello! Hello! My dear community of moms and dads, I hope everything is going well in your lives. I recently read @helimar's post on the topic of Parenting Education, and it got me thinking about many things that are happening in my life that I would like to share with all of you.
We talk about our children, their upbringing, achievements, pride, and challenges; however, there are topics that are being overlooked, such as educating parents to have children with functional behaviors and raising children to care for their parents. And yes, we should create a different community for children to express ourselves and help each other, but in the meantime, we have to talk about parents with children and when the rule changes, as if it were the cycle of life, that our parents become our children.
My mother is a very active person. At 75, she still works (in her own office), takes care of herself, keeps up with the times, and is an expert at using mobile payments (using a mobile app to make payments). However, she herself has noticed how the strength in her legs, her balance, and her cognitive abilities have been deteriorating. This is a silent enemy, but it is there, lurking. I encourage her, even though she no longer does things as she used to, and I take care of the house and her life. My duties include cooking, washing, cleaning, shopping, cleaning her room, keeping her services up to date, taking her to the hairdresser, helping her with her nails, and an endless list of other things that even I can't believe I do and that 15 years ago would have been unthinkable.




Like all young children, I also have to keep her away from her phone all day long. It turns out that her group of friends spend all day sending each other prayers, jokes, “doctor” videos, healing solutions, and other things that I periodically check her phone and delete so that it doesn't get overwhelmed with so much stuff. Similarly, as with the little ones in the house, if I take away her cell phone, what do I give her? That's when what I call “recreational activities” begin. Fortunately, she really likes crafts, painting, and working with her hands. She tells me that when she was young, she took several courses in ceramics and painting, and she still has that knowledge. On the other hand, I've learned to browse the children's and stationery sections in stores, because that's where you can always find these types of educational games to improve her skills.
The list is varied. What he likes most are word searches, but those are really hard to find because, honestly, people don't use them anymore. That's why, every time I find them, I bring him two so he can have them in his free time. On a visit to Mango Bajito (a department store), I found these two games: the wooden painting set, with tempera paints and a brush included, and this figure that I loved, where we use numbers to place the corresponding color of “balls” until the figure is filled.


I liked how intuitive it is, because it comes with three colors, each color has its number printed on it, and the main cardboard box has instructions on where each one goes. With this red pad, the balls stick to the indicator, which is then stuck onto the cardboard. It comes with the pieces counted, so be careful when handling it because if you lose one, the picture will be incomplete.
She also liked it and did it in an orderly and patient manner, so I was surprised by her technique. I think it's because she has done crafts before and knows that taking breaks leads to better results. The downside? I only bought one to try it out, she finished it in two days, and I've gone back several times since then without success 😟. They were super cheap, so I hope to get some more soon; even I would make one 😉.


Another reason I like to have these activities on hand is because we constantly have power outages that can last up to four hours. So, several neighbors get together, including the two children who are home, and we start making up stories. Ana has a very nice and functional box of markers because each tip has two types of ink: one thin and one thick. They are very inexpensive and high quality, so I bought them for her so she wouldn't ask for the girl's markers, because once she brought them home, she talked to me about them for several days. As if by divine intervention, that same day I found a mandala book that was more expensive than the markers 🙃, but I bought it anyway to give her a new activity.
Just like children, there are things she likes, and when she gets them, she doesn't even look at them because she hasn't used them even once, with the excuse that they might get damaged or damage the pages of the book. I think it's childish behavior aimed at: since she grew up with deprivation, she doesn't like to use things, but rather keep them and have them there. I've learned that too, so I have to wait for the right moments for her to use them.
La portada, el banner y el separador los hice en Canva.
El traductor que usé fue DeepL.
Hasta una próxima oportunidad 🌻
I invest in them because it's a way to keep her busy and active; however, a game of ludo, a stop, or some that appear on the internet are also valid options that don't require investing money. So there are no excuses. The photographs are my property. I made the cover, banner, and separator in Canva. The translator I used was DeepL. Until next time 🌻