At present, children are growing up in an individualistic society and where child behavior predominates: harmful comments, selfishness, manipulation, lies and aggression. These behaviors are normal in children from 4 to 6 years old, due to the stage they are going through and it will be later, when empathy begins to appear as long as the adults are the ones who guide the little ones on the path of emotions.

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Many children like ballet, which is not surprising since dance is an instinctive response to the need that human beings have to express our emotions through body movements. However, what many parents do not know is that stimulating an interest in dance from an early age not only improves children’s skills in this art but can also bring many benefits to their physical and psychological development. We reveal some of the advantages of your children starting to learn ballet from the first years of life.

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Patience and silence are necessary for education and for children to be raised with love and intelligence and for them to grow up knowing what strong people are like and how to become one of them. Cultivating patience and silence is essential so that you can live better as a family and increase the quality of life in people. Patience and silence will make your life much easier than you imagine. There are people, especially parents, who seem to have forgotten what patience or silence is, especially when your home is full of children. Appreciating patience in times of stress and silence when it is scarce will change the way you see things. Let’s see what it can contribute to you as a family …

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Instilling the value of friendship in children from an early age can have a huge impact on their development. It not only encourages them to make new friends, but it helps them to be more selective in the relationships they establish and to value them more, which is why they tend to have longer-lasting friendships. Obviously, it is not about transmitting preconceptions but about promoting a critical attitude and a moral conscience so that children are the ones who form their own concept of friendship.

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This story is known as “Ian, a story that will mobilize us” and is based on the life of a disabled child who wants to break down the barriers of loneliness and isolation caused by being disabled. This short has three awards and may be nominated for the Oscars. As soon as you see this short film, it wins the heart of anyone …

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We are used to seeing parents use technology to keep their children calm. They convince themselves that the applications for mobile phones or tablets are good and that children will not have anything to do with being up to date with the screens for a little while. It’s true, nothing has to happen to them, but if you want them to be smarter, then you need to instill in your children more music time and less screen time. You have to keep in mind that what your children achieve in their adult life will depend largely on what you offer them in their learning. Children do not have control of what they learn or do not learn, they simply receive the necessary stimuli to be able to grow mentally. One of the best things that can be done for children is to instill in them a love of music.

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On many occasions, when there are emotional problems in adult life, it seems that childhood is the only one involved, but in reality, not all problems can be traced back to the mother. After all, there is another person involved in raising (or at least creating) a child. Also, there are many other important people in a child’s life who influence him or her. There are siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, godparents, close family friends, babysitters, educators, teachers, peers, and others who regularly interact with a child.

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The latest United Nations Climate Action Summit has left a clear message: our planet is dying at an ever faster rate. Over the next decade, nearly a million animal and plant species will be at risk of extinction, unless we promote a radical change in our consumption habits and modify our relationship with nature. This was confirmed by the largest report on biodiversity to date.

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There are parents and even professionals who insist on removing their diapers early, just because «it’s their turn» or to «take advantage of the good weather.» In reality, the diaper is not removed from children when it «touches», but when they are ready. It seems that society forgets that children have their own evolutionary rhythm and doing things before they are ready is not taking one step forward, it is taking two steps back.

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It was a very hot summer, probably one of the hottest in decades. Perhaps that is why the cicada decided to dedicate the hours of the day to singing happily under a tree. She didn’t feel like working, she just wanted to enjoy the sun and sing, sing and sing. So that was how her days passed, one after another.

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