Among the thousands of books and parenting manuals that currently fill bookstores, we come across the brief essay En la era de los niños cosa:Ensayos contra la crianza como emprendimiento, by Santiago Gerchunoff (Buenos Aires, 1977), where the philosopher, writer, and university and high school professor dissects current parenting and how it has become professionalized to the point that children have become objects 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 thing-children.What are thing children?