The babies route is a hiking proposal for the whole family in the Sierra de Guadarrama in Madrid. Hiking is a healthy activity and the challenge is that children also participate, from 0 years. The proposal that they send us from Ednya (nature education and animation) is that the whole family can enjoy nature.

Many times Christmas arrives and we have been so busy with the preparations that we have been delayed in sending Christmas greetings, although conventional mail is less and less used, many nostalgic people do not want to lose the tradition of sending paper cards, and Much better if they are solidarity.

A recently published study states that the continued vision of SpongeBob cartoons can cause children attention deficits and difficulties both in solving problems and in presenting "moderate" behavior. If the popular yellow character and his friends already fell on suspicion of being too violent a series, now with this new "accusation" we will surely pay more attention to what our children see on the screen.

Many of us make (in part or in its entirety) the weekly purchase in a supermarket, and we also spend a lot of time going through shelves to try to acquire products that have a good quality / price ratio. At home we continue to look for fresh produce in the market and in neighborhood stores, but I have personally learned to read labels at the same time that I am looking for a price adjusted to our possibilities.

There is no doubt that the gifts that parents appreciate most are those made by their children with their own hands. If there is no time to buy the cookies in which they can draw whatever they want, you can always make some homemade and decorate them with edible paint: But in addition to the cookies there are also some crafts that children can make at home to give to Dad in his day.

A week ago we talked about the natural rights of children that the Italian pedagogue Gianfranco Zavalloni claimed for the little ones. These are ten rights that remind us of the basic needs of children and that we can illustrate with drawings. And it is that these rights that are summarized in the premise of letting children be children have several dissemination projects, from translation to all languages ​​to illustration through these beautiful drawings that offer the same message in a different code.

Take a look around you. Do you have daughters and can you see a few pink toys and clothes? What about the children? Do they have many toys or the room in blue tones? The "Pink and blue Project", the Pink and Blue Project, explores cultural preferences and differences in the tastes of children (and their parents) from various societies.

In one of the blogs that I usually review dedicated mainly to the gastronomic topic, I got a note related to an educational resource that I find very interesting. Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger is a global education initiative to train teachers, youth and students to actively engage in the dream of a world free from hunger.

A little over a month ago we explained the case of Hope, a boy of only 2 years who was found wandering the streets, where he had been months, repudiated by his family because they believed he was a sorcerer. Anja Ringgren, founder of the NGO 'African Children's Aid Education and Development' was the one who found it, and the photo in which she is seen feeding and drinking the child, that of this post, went around the world and helped the NGO would receive great financial support to help him and other children in a similar situation, who enter the orphanage run by Anja.

We have talked about the self-esteem of children and the bases to get them to develop it: be protective of them, preventing them from suffering aggressions, offering them upbringing and being consistent with the limits. But there is more and a fundamental value is our attitude towards the most important activity that children develop: the game.

Ayuda en Acción has collaborated with Creadsmedia in its solidarity children's project Apadrina con Wedu. It is a program to promote sponsorship among children and establish a lasting friendship through sponsorship among children around the world. The objective of Ayuda en Acción is to offer families, through an application for Android mobile devices, information on how this project works for children between 5 and 10 years old.

The International Milk League, an organization dedicated to the promotion of breastfeeding, has published a very nice book that we have not yet talked about in the blog. It is titled The Daughters of Hirkani: Women who climbed modern mountains to combine breastfeeding and work. To understand a little better what the book is about, we have to start by talking about Hirkani, an ancient tale from India.