Childhood is a stage of learning, not only about the world around us, but also about ourselves. Little ones, among other things, must learn to recognize and manage their emotions. As Vilma Montoliu, a naturopath and therapist, explains: coach specialized in conscious breathing and meditation in the book I am like the sea (Column, 2025), can meditation be a tool to help them in this process?

"It depends a bit on the children's age, because sometimes we ask them for behaviors they can't give us because their brains aren't yet ready to do them," Montoliu points out. She emphasizes that, by expressing their emotions, children aren't trying to annoy adults, but rather to communicate. "Some parents think they know their children just because they're their children, but they need to get used to asking them more questions. For example, if they notice they're angry, they can ask them if they have a cloud in their head and then tell them, perhaps with the help of stories and tales, why they feel that way." According to Montoliu, this will help them identify their emotions.

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"I've felt judged by other families. They think it's a kind of punishment I'm imposing on my daughter, as if I were depriving her of things. But they don't make me feel bad; quite the opposite. I feel sorry for children who can't eat healthy," explains Daniela Reyes, mother of S.. She and her partner are among the families who avoid sugar in their children's diets.

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My pregnancy went very well, overall. I was lucky enough to feel physically well, so the nine months flew by without me even noticing.

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A sociologist, social educator, and professor of sociology of education at the University of Vic (UVic), Jordi Collet doesn't understand diversity as anything other than normal, and therefore, he doesn't understand why it's experienced internally as a problem. He advocates a change of perspective and a rethinking of schools to utilize resources differently than previously. He explained this in a lecture at the Escola Projecte, as part of the presentation of the first Hermini Tudela Foundation awards, which specifically seek best practices in inclusion.

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All families want the best for their children: for them to be happy, to have friends, to do well in school, to be well... But what makes them feel satisfied in their lives? And, above all, what can we do as families to promote this?

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Nearly twenty years ago, Eva Boix took over Can Joval, a 12th-century farmhouse in Clariana del Cardener, in Solsonès, and forged a family-run summer camp project that, with 120 beds surrounded by forest and nature, offers family stays, burrows, esplais, and schools. It's a rustic farmhouse where they focus on personalized service and take care of every detail, both in the house and in the activities they offer. In the field of school camps, for several years now, they've offered themed stays and educational projects so children and young people can make the most of this break in their daily lives. It's a transformation they've also had to undergo to adapt to changing regulations in the sector, which restrict certain activities and games to avoid risks, which affects the design of these stays.

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You must have been very small, but you were already talking like a little man, perched on the wooden chair, stirring the plate and asking us if that piece of meat would grow back, the suckling pig.

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We still find it uncomfortable to talk about sex with our children because in my generation we were raised in taboo and silence. We are mothers, fathers, charas—a term used to describe non-binary people who have children—born before or during the transition, and our backpacks are filled with the Christian morality that nurtured sexuality in those times.

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"I've cried more for Laia than for my marriage," explains Neus Velasco about the breakup of their relationship and their blended family. Five years later, they had a daughter together: Arlet, Laia's half-sister. The relationship lasted nine years, the longest in a child's life. "When the relationship broke up, it was very brutal, and not just for me. The end of a blended family not only ends the relationship as a couple, but also the emotional bonds built with the children and, often, with other close members, collateral victims of this family change. I had the intention of breaking anything off, but contact with the girls was emotionally unbearable for me.

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Just over two months ago, families visiting the emergency room or pediatric clinics at Hospital del Mar discovered how healthcare staff use pictograms when treating them. They are able to identify the symptoms that most illnesses present. From headaches, neck pain, stomach pain, or back pain, fever, runny nose, cough, rashes, vomiting, diarrhea, or dizziness, plaques, etc. And the possible treatments, from the simplest, such as a syrup, a pill, or a bandage, to the more complex, such as intubation, insertion of an IV, or insertion of a urinary or nasogastric tube (TEA), or with a language barrier, in the case of newly arrived families.

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Lapland It arose from conversations with Cristina Clemente and Jordi Casanovas, its producer. The three of us have children of similar ages, and one day the topic of how we would handle Christmas came up, following the case of friends who had chosen not to trick their children into believing the Three Wise Men existed. This option seemed very radical, very disruptive.

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What happens when everything you see and feel at home has nothing to do with what you later learn at school? You feel like you're at a disadvantage, like you're out of step. A feeling that children of foreign origin who study in our schools today know all too well. These are students whom the educational system has marginalized, which requires teachers to review and reflect on. We need to talk about racism in the classroom again, or at least that's the starting point of the book. When songs from home don't play at school (Eumo Editorial, 2025), by Marta Comas and Alfons Espinosa, presented this week at the Ona bookstore in Barcelona.

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In Catalonia, 1.1 children are born per woman. According to the Idescat (National Institute of Social Development), in recent years, the number of smaller families with only one child has increased, and the tendency to have two, but especially three, or more children has decreased. Job insecurity, new family patterns, and later marriages are some of the causes of this demographic trend. In this context, what happens when one partner wants more children and the other doesn't?

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Alba Arjona is 30 years old, she is from l'Ametlla de Mar and she has been a primary school teacher in a public school in Roda de Ter (Osona) since this school year, but until last year she was a Spanish teacher in a college (the equivalent of a public secondary school) in Paris, the city where she settled immediately after finishing her university studies. "I was so keen to start working as a teacher in Catalonia or abroad, but I had the feeling that if I started in Catalonia I would stay there forever. I wanted to see the world," she recalls.

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About Salvador Illa's announcement, which came from the government of Pere Aragonès, to provide aid to families with two children who earn 3,700 euros between them, ARA readers have been left scratching their heads. "3,700 euros is not enough? 500 euros, which they will have to pay back at the end of the quarter. So, that's about 3,000. That leaves 1,250. The self-employed, especially if they live outside Barcelona, ​​need a car for work, which will cover many miles on the car loan, 100 on public transport, and gasoline. Toilets, soap for washing and washing, frozen foods, legumes, diapers, meat, canned goods, sausages... that's at least 100 euros. Let's imagine, and it's quite imaginative, that with this budget they can also buy fish or some candy for Saturday. Extras, like changing the car tires, city tax, a repair... have to come from here. Extra payments, in summer and at Christmas if they have a holiday, they don't get any savings capacity for the dry months and can't take vacations. Two children are in diapers and do extracurricular activities, a support teacher.

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Over the last few months, several educational centers in Catalonia have worked on children's rights in a very particular way: they have created a song that explains and vindicates them, and which, at the same time, has helped them participate in the contest. We have a voice, an initiative by the Catalan Ombudsman to find the anthem that, from now on, will serve to publicize and defend these rights through music. The initiative, aimed at students in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades of primary school in all public and subsidized schools in Catalonia, as well as esplais, casales, and listening groups in the country, sought a song in Catalan, original in lyrics and music, that was intended to be sung in a group and that dealt with children's rights in general or with a right.

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Going on summer camps is quite an adventure. Packing a backpack, traveling by bus, participating in outdoor activities, and... sleeping away from home. One, two, or three nights. For many children, this circumstance is irrelevant, but for others, it's one of the reasons they put off.

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Grandmother and grandfather: the mother or father of the mother or father... But also, you can call him godfather (colloquially, in Mallorca, pradine), and to her, nona (inspired by the Italian way of designating grandmother). In the Spanish version, we find the grandmother and the grandfather. Of originals, with ingenuity, we find arari (which derives from the phrase "now comes grandpa"), babimia (a compound formed by Josep Maria and grandfather), or others like Oh (grandmother messy) and Ava; apart from sweets iayuchi, mimi and güelis, and curious people like mamamama (that is, twice a mother).

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When Clara Pons-Mesman's son was 2 years old, she realized that a process of transformation of the parks in the city where they lived was beginning: "They put rubber in most of the parks. I realized that the ground didn't allow him to play with the sand or observe the ants; he no longer enjoyed experimenting because he wasn't enjoying experimentation because he couldn't find it in the parks," Pons-Mesman explains of her son. From then on, she learned about it and realized that there were few references to promoting play in nature. This is the starting point of her project. Earth in the hands, which encourages free, outdoor play.

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