We are so accustomed, so much, to the rhythm of life that has been imposed on us (and that we have allowed ourselves to impose) that we think normal have schedules totally incompatible with those of our children. As if that were the logical thing, as if schedules were an immovable universal law to which every mortal must adapt.
Men and women must work to pay for the house, which is no longer a right of every citizen, the car, which is almost a luxury, food and everything we need, which is not little, and we must do it from the moment we get up that in the afternoon, many times when it gets dark, we return home. So, there are children who are going to look for their parents to work. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
It's terrible. It is unfortunate, really, that children are so alone. Some go to their parents' work to return home together, others, the children of the key, arrive directly at home and there they snack, waiting for dad and mom to arrive. The little ones are picked up by the grandparents, some younger, some older. Domino Grandparents, I call them, those who should be sitting with others of the same fifth, playing dominoes all morning, walking, talking about the weather, looking at the works, explaining their youth battles or what hurts their knees.
I know it sounds utopian. I know that it is possible that not even my children will see the change, something that will only happen if they lay more eggs than us, that nor when they are robbing us of our dignity are we able to show our teeth, but they deserve, and their future children too, a world in which one does not live to work. A world where you can work, but you can live. And if these schedules are necessary, they are not, that those who from one day to another become parents can change our schedule to adapt, we, to the schedules of our children. And incidentally, that yours also adapt to what they really need.
We said it a while ago, many children "work" in day care centers more than eight hours a day. Without entering if they are more or less happy there, it is clear that it is the consequence that their parents cannot attend to them. Well, we have accepted it as normal and no, it's on duty.
Our children need us, they have the right to have time and energy to educate them and act as parents and we have the right to enjoy them. The strongest thing is that this video is from 2011. It is almost 3 years old and everything stays the same or worse. But well, don't worry, the World Cup and the holidays are coming and we can be with our children, we will not know very well what to talk with them or what to play, because during the year we have not had much time for it, but we can take pictures together, post them on Facebook and say that we are a happy family and that they are the most important and the future of everything.
Well, hey, to be the future, as a society, how bad and how little we are taking care of them ... Let's see what they give us back when the future becomes a reality.
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