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At the age of 13-14 years, during the very
hapless awkward age, I was sure that I would
allow my children to do whatever they want
to. I carried out that intension, polishing its
implementation with some adult experience.
Our son is five years old now and I`m
extremely proud of the fact that I can listen
to him and that l’m preaching this necessity
in our big family.
As I think, the children - parents conflict is
one of the most important nowadays. The
lack of understanding, the unwillingness to
try - here is the thing we should fight with in
order to achieve harmony in any relationship,
be it pair of sweethearts or a mother and a
son.
During the whole period of pregnancy and
motherhood l haven’t read any specialized
book, or watched to any TV show, full of
gabbling mommies, or got into any blog to
find some answers or get advice from people
I’ve never seen. I don’t understand why our
girls are so unselfconsciousness and why they
can’t listen to their insides and to the child,
spending instead a lot of time chatting with
ladies who think they are semiprofessionals
and giving to many advices.
We were extremely lucky with the private
pediatrist who for the several months after
the son was born put the things right in my
head for the rest of my life. In America, for
example, there is no such a global concept of
pediatrics like we have in Russia. Each child
gets an individual attention there, which is
based on the quality of life, environment and
family ground rules and so on. Only here
the doctor can put a mark “is retarded” in
child`s medical card when at the age of one
year he speak 8 words instead of 10. For this
very reason since his birth our son was never
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