Irene was off on a trip, and many new questions came into play: how was baby León going to sleep when he had never known bottle nor dummy? How was he going to sleep without the breast at 21 months? What was going to happen to Lorenzo, aged five, to have to wait for me to put his little brother to sleep first? #parenting #fatherhood

A diary of fatherhood

Fragments of 2024. Questions, doubts, challenges. Imaginary friends, linguistic habits, privileges. Reflections and anecdotes. Setbacks in raising ...

“The problem with the research isn’t the way it presents caregiving as a burden, but how it presents it only as a burden, with little curiosity on what makes it a burden, and even less on what makes it an opportunity.” Elissa Strauss in When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others

Making room for joy

And the healthy overlap between stress and meaning making

On a global level, women do 76.2% of all of the care work which is not remunerated, dedicating 3.2 times more time to these tasks than men, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). As an exercise, let’s ask ourselves: Who is researching, looking for, finding, choosing and closing the deal on a specialist, pediatrician or therapist to cover the range of needs at different stages of childhood? Who skips work when a child gets sick and can’t go to school? And why is it like this?