What Estivill Penalty!

Soil usually publish articles that are to recommend a book or to bring an item related to attachment parenting. This time I do something different going to criticize an article published several weeks ago in a popular Sunday Spanish newspaper.

The title said Eduard Estivill "I'm like everyone else. When fatal sleep, I take the pill"

Only the title and I'm afraid. An expert on how to sleep well advised to take pills and also presents it as a very normal practice, am I weird?

But is that the interview is not going to stop releasing beads happily doctor. Begin the interview with Mr. Estivill questioning the reporter (which is close and entertaining!) And asks if he has children. The interviewer has two children aged six and four years and says that it is not easy.

And the doctor replies: [smiles, ironic] is complicated. More than anything, not being a father, but for the little time you have to treat them. It requires much work. Then the kids grow fast. You realize you're missing the best of the child's life. For the best in our children's lives, make no mistake, it is from birth until they are seven years. After that, we begin to putearte otherwise, but before, all you get is rewarding.

It seems incredible, it is assumed that neither mother nor father are at home with their children, or have reduced hours or have asked leave, we are working long hours as it should be. Then instead of recommend (since it is assumed that he has been through it) to enjoy your children, in solidarity with the fact that they will lose the best of the child's life, takes it for granted as an inherent consequence to be a father. And finally, and I find it creepy, says it's best to seven years. And this guy is a guru of parenting? A person who is telling you that from the seven years your children begin to putearte? Maybe talk about your own experience (but not universal please do).

Estivill appears on radio, television, publishing books (the latter a manual of education: "Home Alone") and broadcasts a tyrannical concept of education, with two sides: parents and children. And the first have to subdue the other, well he calls educate or develop habits.

Well, sometimes read an author so diametrically opposed to our feelings, our ideas and really strengthens us even more. Just makes me sad to think of those children whose parents, with the best intentions, cruel methods applied.