I get home after an exhausting day at work... the only thing I feel like doing is sitting on the couch relaxing and having a drink...

It is not unusual to hear phrases like this, either openly or between the lines if you listen carefully when a child is brought to the pediatrician's office. It is not the main reason for consultation, of course, but it is important to pay attention to these subtle signs. They speak of the reality that many children live at homes on a day-to-day basis. They speak of their parents' long and poorly distributed workdays. They speak of a social reality that we sometimes try to hide, although we express the discomfort that it generates in a semi-involuntary and unconscious way, to let off steam.

As if it were in the hands of the pediatricians to change this reality they too often live!

10 inspiring quotes on effective parenting

1️⃣ Parenting is not about being perfect, but about being present. —Unknown

2️⃣ The best way to make children good is to make them happy. —Oscar Wilde

3️⃣ Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded. —Jess Lair

4️⃣ A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. —Robert Brault

5️⃣ There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one. —Sue Atkins

6️⃣ Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be. —David Bly

7️⃣ To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. —Barbara Johnson

8️⃣ Each day of our lives, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. —Charles R. Swindoll

9️⃣ The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. —Theodore Hesburgh

🔟 While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. —Angela Schwindt