If I Could, My Son, Have Powers To Make Nothing Hurt You …

If I could, my son, pass my hand over your forehead so that the fever would disappear in a second …  I would like to have powers to immediately relieve all your pains, close all wounds, make your fears disappear, cure all your colds, your colic … However, mothers and fathers only have the power of love, and with this we conform to be able to safeguard you, protect you and alleviate all your fears and possible suffering.

We are sure that as a mother, as a father, you will have thought this same thing on more than one occasion. All of us would like to have within our reach that ability to remove from our children all pain and even why not say it, any problem or small annoyance that they may suffer at some point.

Despite the fact that in the day to day it is said that the little ones must suffer a fall from time to time to learn to get up again, not all parents think the same. If possible, we will pave the way so that they do not stumble, so that they do not slip. Those days will come when you learn from your own mistakes, when life gives you those valuable learning opportunities.

On the other hand, few things are more disabling and hard than seeing our children go through some illness. Sometimes, it is enough to see the bad moments that happen during teething or with a simple cold to want to carry on us its discomfort, its pains or its tenths of fever.

However, whether we like it or not, parenting is also that: knowing how to face those difficult moments and understanding that it is not in our hands to be able to put a protection bubble around it where pain, falls, viruses or diseases do not reach. infections However, and here the real magic rises, Mom and Dad can also “heal” in many other ways …

If I had powers, my child, to make anything hurt …

We see them so small and so fragile that we are in awe. As soon as we arrive in the world and see their faces, a need for absolute protection lights up in us, hearing them cry breaks our hearts, we attend to their every movement, we love hearing them breathe and we wonder at all times if they will be alright, if they will feel cold. , if they will be hungry, afraid …

That feeling is completely natural and even necessary. This is how we guarantee the survival of our children, this is how those “superpowers” are awakened in us that will keep us alert  despite so many nights of sleeplessness, this is how we anticipate any danger and this is how that “instinct is born in us ”Maternal or parternal that although it surprises us, it has more than one extraordinary capacity that can surprise you.

Mama has powers with her kisses

This fact is undoubtedly as curious as it is special. According to a study carried out at the University of Pittsburg in 248 cases of children and over almost 5 years, every time a child suffered a small injury, such as a fall, for example, and Mom’s kiss was much more effective than medicine.

How do you explain this? It is very simple, both kisses, caresses or hugs give children a calming effect. That affectionate closeness in turn makes us secrete oxytocin, and with oxytocin, endorphins, those hormones that mediate well-being and that, in turn, strengthen the immune system.

It is clear that mother’s kiss will not cure any disease. However, what it will do is make recovery faster. That is why in many hospitals they make it easier for fathers and mothers to be with their children every time they have to be admitted to a clinic. The little ones suffer less stress, less fear and therefore can better cope with interventions and postoperative periods.

Dad offers security, Dad protects us from everything

As Sigmund Freud once said, few things are as valuable to a child as feeling protected by his father. It is clear that a mother also has this capacity, but when a little one has two parents, they always enjoy that close, friendly and comforting refuge such as the arms of their father, there where they can grow up and see the world, there where they feel that nothing is wrong. it can happen to them.

Therefore, if you are a parent, do not hesitate, every time your child has a fever, feels fear or that knee hurts from the fall he has suffered in the schoolyard, do it, lift him high in your arms and have your child together to you a good time. You will feel much better instantly, because mom and dad also heal. They also have powers.