{"id":64393,"date":"2026-09-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=64393"},"modified":"2026-09-11T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:05:12","slug":"i-want-my-son-to-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/firmas\/quiero-que-mi-hijo-sea-feliz\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI want my son to be happy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cI want my son to be happy\u201d<\/em>. I work with parents, and 100% of the families say that to me when they apply to enroll their child in school. I have five people who call me \u00abMom,\u00bb and I want the same thing, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I know that happiness cannot be achieved without conflicts, frustrations, challenging moments, and difficult conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s true that 30 years ago, there were situations that were considered normal and that shaped the lives of many children. Making fun of the kid who wore glasses, the redheaded girl, or assuming that a teacher might treat you badly just because he or she was having a bad day. But the pendulum swung the other way, and we went to the opposite extreme. We can\u2019t promise our children that they\u2019ll never face a difficult situation, nor can we spend our lives looking for someone to blame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our children will have to ride their own waves: a difficult classmate, a lost championship, an invitation that never came. We simply can\u2019t prevent it. Because life goes on, and things happen. The philosopher Gregorio Luri explains it very well: <em>\u201cNo matter how much you wish for life to treat you well, it always has a few surprises in store. But the wise thing to do isn\u2019t to despise life because it throws us curveballs\u2014it\u2019s to love it in spite of them. Life is imperfect, just like parents.\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s work to make the world a more humane and welcoming place, but perhaps it\u2019s okay to accept that being parents means navigating life with children who make mistakes, who change, who are sometimes victims (and at other times, yes, perpetrators as well)\u2014and that in the midst of that turbulent, towering wave, the only thing we can guarantee them is that we\u2019ll try to find the current that leads them to peace\u2014and that lets them know that while there are sharks in the sea, the corals are less visible, but there are far more of them. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cQuiero que mi hijo sea feliz\u201d. Trabajo recibiendo padres y el 100 % de las familias me dicen esa frase cuando postulan a su hijo a un colegio. Tengo cinco personas que me llaman \u00abmam\u00e1\u00bb, y tambi\u00e9n quiero lo mismo. Pero s\u00e9 que la felicidad no se alcanza sin conflictos, sin frustraciones, sin momentos complejos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":64394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[47,48],"tags":[590,1068,991],"class_list":["post-64393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-firmas","category-firmas-invitadas","tag-educacion","tag-hijos","tag-ninos"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cQuiero que\u00a0mi hijo sea feliz\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Educar para la felicidad no significa evitarles las dificultades a nuestros hijos, sino acompa\u00f1arlos para que aprendan a afrontarlas.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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