Being a mother today is also a market. Market of promises, methods and experts. Courses to sleep, stimulate, etc. There has never been so much information about parenting, nor so many ways to do it “right.” The problem is not information but its excess when it is commercialized: the more breeding is sold, the more the feeling of not being up to par grows, the more new needs grow. Everything needs explanation, even the most basic: accompanying, educating, loving. Recommendations, suggested activities and lists that order each moment as if childhood had to be optimized. Perhaps what a baby needs is simpler: to sit with him in a park, or on the floor at home, with no other goal than to be there, play, laugh. But that can’t be sold. And yet, it’s the only thing that really matters. It is not about rejecting information or professional help when it is necessary. It is about questioning the oversupply that turns breeding into an improvement project. The problem is not not knowing enough, but forgetting that not everything needs to be learned. Continue reading
