There has been much talk about how the first years of children's lives are what define many aspects of their adult life. Several studies have analyzed the importance of the environment in the development of the baby, and how the environment around them may or may not affect them in the future. Now, a study in two parts, with 78 years of separation between each one, found that the environment in which children grow, influences the quality of their romantic relationships in their adult lives.

On September 25, 2014, the exhibition Draw the Meninas was presented at the ABC Museum in Madrid, which can be seen from September 26 to November 16. The exhibition coincides with the presentation of the Las Meninas comic, by the Astiberri publishing house, which is the work of the writer Santiago García and the illustrator Javier Olivares.

"Child massage, the art of giving love", is the beautiful title of this video that shows us the benefits and some techniques of baby massage, a practice that many parents and children enjoy (others not so much). Nurse Sandra Peña Gascón, responsible for the children's massage service of the Hospital de Nens de Barcelona, ​​exposes us the advantages of giving massage to newborns, to stimulate their senses and improve their development.

The other day I talked with some friends about how much the concept of "vacations" changes when we become parents. One of them summed up his opinion in one sentence: "after a vacation with my children, what I need is a vacation." And I couldn't agree more with her. And if we were asked the question "what do we expect from the holidays?

I have not been able to resist sharing with you these delicious crunchy chocolate Easter nests that Liliana Fuchs presented a few days ago Direct to the Palate. And it is that we are already in spring and everything reminds us of life, so why not emulate the eggs that the birds put in carefully built nests?

The NGO Save the Children publishes every year a list of the best countries to be a mother. This year, and to the surprise of many, Spain has been in seventh place. I say surprise because a few days ago UNICEF commented that it is not good business to be a child in our country in a comparison with other developed countries.

Music therapy is an educational, preventive and therapeutic resource, a tool that seeks a change to develop and generate attitudes of awareness, respect and bond towards the intrauterine baby and the baby through the creative process. I present today some prenatal and foster music therapy workshops that take place in Classroom 11, located in Tirso de Molina, in Madrid.

There are so many absurd Guinness records that this one, although strange, certainly deserves special mention for the generosity of this mother: Alicia Richman, 28, has won the Guiness Record for donating breast milk. He has donated no less than almost 330 liters of milk to the Mother's Milk Bank of North Texas.

To start talking about Parir without fear. The legacy of Consuelo Ruiz Vélez-Frías, a book that has not yet touched my hands but will soon be in my library, we must start by knowing its author. Consuelo Ruiz Vélez-Frías was a woman ahead of her time. It was midwife. He was born in Madrid in 1914 and brought children to the world practically until he died at the age of 91.

A few days ago, we talked about what happens with the siblings of a child with a disability: what feelings could be generated, the importance of being born before or after the disabled brother ... Today we will see that the brother without a disability encounters a multitude of feelings that, on various occasions, they are contradictory.

As every week, today we review the highlights that we have been able to find in the blogs of fathers and moms in recent days. Many mothers will feel identified these days of beginning of school with what Mamá de Julio has on the first day of adaptation in the nursery. If it serves as comfort, despite the few expectations, it has not gone as bad as I expected.

There is a great debate on the issue of mobile telephony and children, they all give their opinion, reason from their point of view and defend their criteria by layer and sword, we are all free in terms of our thoughts, but none are in the head or in the life of another. The most surprising thing is that those who are against children having a mobile phone, it seems that they are only worried about not encouraging consumerism and not giving such technology to children.