Recommended readings

When we approach a topic as complex as homeschooling, whether we do it out of curiosity, as educators, as officials or as parents, in addition to the online resources that I offered in a previous article, it can be interesting to manage a basic bibliography. For this reason I am going to offer you a compilation of the best books on homeschooling in Spanish.

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Today is World Cancer Day, and on that date we are happy to share this news with our readers. The CRIS Foundation against cancer and the Carlos III Health Institute are developing a guide that will help children with cancer, their parents and caregivers and professionals cope with the pain of the disease, with the aim of reducing suffering and anxiety that causes.

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Losing a pregnancy is a painful experience that many women, their partners and their families have to address at some point in their lives. There is more and more information about perinatal deaths, but it seems that when the pregnancy was in its first months, the pain that it entails and the psychic and physical process that the woman is experiencing is still not understood.

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As parents, we try to make our home a safe place, aware of the large number of accidents that occur in your breast. The CareSOS Project is part of the “With Greater Care” Campaign that the MAPFRE Foundation has been developing in Spain and Latin America for several years. It is an educational program designed by Mapfre with the collaboration of the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (SEMFYC), which aims to promote the prevention of childhood accidents in the domestic and school environment.

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Whether you live in the province or if you plan to visit it soon, I think you will be interested in this Family Tourism Guide in the province of Valencia, with proposals to travel with children and enjoy the best visits and tours in the place. This is a publication that we can consult online, published by the Provincial Tourism Board of Valencia, Terra i Mar, with the main objective of promoting this type of tourism in the 14 regions of the province.

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A few days ago I told you that a book entitled “It works !: Healthy children all year” had been published and I offered my vision about it, making a call to common sense, to avoid putting children at risk. When someone tells me about homeopathy for children I get bad, because hey, if you want to go to homeopath and spend your money on a placebo, you are free, but children cannot decide, so when using homeopathy with them we are playing with your health .

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I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I said I would not spend time on this book and I have been weak, I have fallen into the trap and have read the first 40 pages of the book "Pediatrics with common sense" by Dr. Eduard Estivill and Dr. Gonzalo Pin. The reason for falling is that I read very good reviews about the book (I don't mean they talked well about it, but they criticized it very well), and I felt the need to live it in the first person.

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"Born at home", or rather, "Who was born at home?" Is a curious publication available on Amazon that brings us closer to home birth, something that until recently was the most common, and that the author, Corie Feiner , he wanted to spread after the birth of his own son in the home. The work is focused on showing us the stories of illustrious Americans: poets, educators, inventors, adventurers and politicians who were born at home as the author discovered after visiting the places where they came to the world and the museums where their houses have become.

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Nutrition occupies a very important space in our blog, as a fundamental part of a healthy lifestyle for the whole family. Therefore I speak of this interesting "Guide to healthy eating", with advice related to the preparation and consumption of meals. This is an extensive edition that we can consult or download online, widely illustrated, prepared by a group of experts from the Spanish Community Nutrition Society (SENC), with the collaboration of professionals from other related organizations.

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How would you explain to your son what jealousy is? And you could tell your daughter what fear is? Many times we find ourselves lost to explain to our little ones something as complex as feelings. Therefore, Begoña Ibarrola, writer and psychologist, has combined imagination and training, reality and fiction, to create a collection called "Tales to feel" (Grupo SM).

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I have just finished a book, "Prenatal Ecology" by the wonderful French obstetrician Michel Odent that brings together articles from all eras, both from his books and from his lectures and his website, all with a common theme, which gives title to the work. Odent talks about the way in which different cultures have addressed a natural and physiological issue such as childbirth, interfering with it and disturbing its normal development with the most varied justifications.

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A few weeks ago we were talking about the different dietary reference intakes in the world, that is, the nutritional recommendations, especially with regard to pregnancy and lactation. We have known later the book we are talking about today, "Dietary Reference Intakes (IDR) for the Spanish population", published in 2010, of the Spanish Federation of Nutrition, Food and Dietetic Societies (FESNAD), which establishes IDRs properly Spanish, after studies in the Spanish population.

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An unfortunate book for parents entitled "Go the fuck to sleep", which translated into Spanish would be something like 'Fall asleep once and for all', is a newly released work that is sweeping the United States. Its author is the writer Adam Mansbach, a father who after a particularly difficult period to send my two-year-old daughter Vivien to sleep, has decided to share his frustration with other parents through a book in childish tone, but certainly not for children.

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Difrax, the Dutch childcare brand that we discovered years ago at a baby fair, has launched a beautiful collection of books to download for free for children and children. They have been prepared by experts from the world of the baby such as pediatricians, child dentists, psychologists, physiotherapists, speech therapists and lactation experts to give advice to parents about the care of the baby, but also to make children's books that help them in their growth process .

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Today we want to show you one of those typical gifts that are usually made when a couple is about to have their first child. Help! My baby comes without instruction manual is a basic pack for novice parents that consists of a book with various tips to help us raise our baby, a funny bib with an L and a sticker for the car, reverse, to stick it on the glass rear, with the message that gives title to the pack (Help!

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