Las cifras del divorcio son muy importantes. En España crece y va hacia el 30% sobre matrimonios celebrados. En USA está por encima del 40% bajando algo los últimos años. Es un fenómeno que se está dando, al menos, en el mundo occidental. Dar la estadística del porcentaje de divorcios sobre el de matrimonios celebrados el mismo año podría dar una idea de la tasa de fracaso matrimonial; pero solamente si ese porcentaje se mantuviese un número de años equivalente a la duración de un matrimonio. En cualquier caso, las cifras de divorcio son muy importantes. Lo que ha llevado a hacer estudios sobre la influencia que puede tener sobre los hijos. La dimensión social de los efectos sobre la prole no se nos puede escapar.
Sigue leyendo «El divorcio»Save the planet
With so much to say about climate change and how it is affecting our planet, it can be difficult to understand how one person can have a real impact. However, incorporating ecological habits into your daily life is much easier than you think. Although these actions may seem minor, the truth is that they can make a difference. With this we can teach our children to take care of the planet from a young age so that they have a more peaceful and joyful life.
Sigue leyendo «Save the planet»Ayudar al planeta
Con tanto que decir sobre el cambio climático y cómo está afectando a nuestro planeta, puede ser difícil entender cómo una sola persona puede tener un impacto real. Sin embargo, incorporar hábitos ecológicos en tu vida diaria es mucho más fácil de lo que piensas. Aunque estas acciones pueden parecer menores, la verdad es que pueden hacer la diferencia. Con esto podemos enseñar a nuestros hijos a cuidar el planeta desde pequeños para que tengan una vida más tranquila y alegre.
Sigue leyendo «Ayudar al planeta»Being a role model
Being a parent is not an easy job and raising a child to be respectful, patient, responsible and hardworking is the dream of any parent. But children are not easy to raise and many times, they learn behaviors (good and bad) by observing their parents. Parents need to be aware that they are ultimately responsible for the development of their children.
Sigue leyendo «Being a role model»Ser un buen ejemplo para tus hijos
Ser padre o madre no es un trabajo fácil y criar a un niño para que sea respetuoso, paciente, responsable y trabajador es el sueño de cualquier progenitor. Pero los niños no son fáciles de criar y en muchas ocasiones, aprenden los comportamientos (buenos y malos) observando a sus padres. Es necesario que los padres sean conscientes de que ellos son los máximos responsables del desarrollo de sus hijos.
Sigue leyendo «Ser un buen ejemplo para tus hijos»Family time
These days, due to work and various responsibilities, it is often difficult to spend quality time with our children. We must make a conscious effort to take time dedicated only to them, but not only being physically present, but interacting together. Spending quality time with the family is of great importance for children, since from this strengthened bond there is a healthy emotional development, greater stability, security and learns to build relationships with other people.
There is no use spending a lot of time at home if you don’t really share time together. Family time means sharing and looking for an activity that everyone can enjoy, it can be a board game for young and old, playing hide-and-seek in the park, singing a children’s song, telling them a story … It is also important Talk to your children, ask them what they did that day, what new things they learned, what they liked the most. This space is very valuable for children and they keep it in mind throughout their lives.
Likewise, the amount of time is also important, the times that they can repeat these experiences and the constancy of these spaces will be those that mark the continuity of the presence of parents in their lives, if they can count on them and they are there when they need them .
Although a father cannot be physically present all the time with the children, it is important that they can let them know that they are attentive to them, for example they can call them during the afternoon at least once to express their affection and when they see them at the end of the day, they will tell you they were thinking about them.
Spending time with your children is an important activity within the family bond, because the longer you are with them, you will have many opportunities to understand them, reinforce their values, teach them new things and prepare them for the future.
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Pasar tiempo en familia
En la actualidad, debido al trabajo y las diversas responsabilidades, suele ser difícil pasar tiempo de calidad con nuestros hijos. Debemos hacer un esfuerzo consciente para tomarnos un tiempo dedicado solo a ellos, pero no solo estando físicamente presentes, sino interactuando juntos. Pasar tiempo de calidad en familia, es de gran importancia para los niños, ya que a partir de este vínculo fortalecido se da un desarrollo emocional saludable, mayor estabilidad, seguridad y aprende a construir relaciones con otras personas.
Sigue leyendo «Pasar tiempo en familia»Leave your comfort zone
In psychology, the comfort zone refers to a mental state where the person uses fear and anxiety avoidance behaviors in their daily life, using a routine behavior to achieve constant performance without assuming any risk, that is, with the “pilot automatic». It is a personal space made up of strategies and attitudes that we use often and with which we feel comfortable, settling in our way of acting because we feel safe. It is an area that only encompasses the known, that environment where we are comfortable and makes us feel safe because everything is under our control, but passivity and routine cause apathy and existential emptiness, preventing personal growth by renouncing to take initiatives that expand the limits of that area. The well-being that is felt is not the product of satisfaction or personal pride, but of the absence of negative emotions such as uncertainty or insecurity when taking refuge in our known environment. The comfort zone is also working on something simple in a safe environment without wanting to promote yourself, or maintain a relationship that gives security despite being unhappy. In the next video we are going to see a little inspiration in front of the comfort zone and how we can get out of it. You can find the english caption in the video.
Salir de nuestra zona de confort
En psicología la zona de confort se refiere a un estado mental donde la persona utiliza conductas de evitación del miedo y la ansiedad en su vida diaria, utilizando un comportamiento rutinario para conseguir un rendimiento constante sin asumir ningún riesgo, es decir, con el “piloto automático”. Es un espacio personal compuesto de estrategias y actitudes que utilizamos a menudo y con las que nos sentimos confortables, instalándose en nuestra manera de actuar porque nos sentimos seguros. Es una zona que sólo abarca lo conocido, ese ambiente donde estamos a gusto y nos hace sentir seguros porque todo está bajo nuestro control, pero la pasividad y la rutina provoca apatía y vacío existencial, impidiendo el crecimiento personal al renunciar a tomar iniciativas que ensanchen los límites de esa zona. El bienestar que se siente no es producto de la satisfacción o el orgullo personal, sino de la ausencia de emociones negativas como la incertidumbre o la inseguridad al refugiarnos en nuestro entorno conocido. La zona de confort también es trabajar en algo simple en un entorno seguro sin querer promocionarse, o mantener una relación que da seguridad a pesar de estar a disgusto. En el siguiente video vamos a ver un poco de inspiración frente a la zona de confort y como podemos salir de ella.
The importance of goals
Awareness of the great importance of setting goals or objectives is a primary step. Defining objectives is not easy but it makes us direct our actions and efforts towards what we want to achieve. In the student sphere, it is even more important to have a clear direction and a strategy. Setting objectives is essential for the success of our knowledge and education, be it from when we are little until we are about to finish school or university, since they mark a course to follow and serve as a source of motivation and commitment. The goals are not always for our education, but for our personal and emotional development, to evaluate what we want to achieve in a period of time. The goals and objectives are to enjoy and discover new things that is why the first thing we want to tell you is how we must think very well the objectives that we want to set ourselves must be objective and realistic in the short term so that we do not get frustrated, for the goals that do not have a certain time let’s take it easy, let’s not get frustrated that everything is going at a different pace.
Setting a goal is the key to a successful life. From the moment that people decide to focus their efforts on achieving objectives and goals, they began to overcome the most difficult obstacles. Formulating and achieving goals goals is one of the most important activities in people’s lives, it improves their quality of life and makes it possible to make stops along the way, where I am at the moment and where I am going. That is why we generally see this activity in the New Year, to start the year with a clear idea of what we want.
