Among the thousands of parenting books and manuals currently filling bookstores, we come across the brief essay In the Age of Child-Things:Ensayos contra la crianza como emprendimiento, by Santiago Gerchunoff (Buenos Aires, 1977), where the philosopher, writer, and university and high school teacher dissects modern parenting and how it has become professionalized to the point that children have turned into an object to be improved. The book is a collection of short essays he wrote some time ago while raising his daughters, who are now 13 and 19 years old, readapted with a common thread: the concept of child-things.What are thing children?