the psychoanalyst Massimo Ammaniti is the protagonist of the third appointment on Friday 20 January for the cycle "Growing up, what a struggle", sponsored by Golinelli Foundation and by AISMI (Association for Child Mental Health): five meetings with free admission on the topics of parenting, developmental psychology, learning and growth, scheduled at Opificio Golinelli (via Paolo Nanni Costa, 14) until in March. Ammaniti presents his latest book "The most difficult job in the world (parents)", written with the Corriere della Sera journalist Paolo Conti, on the themes of the modern family, the parent-child relationship and the difficulty of teaching rules and responsibilities.
From the back cover
Is it a difficult task, or even "impossible" as Sigmund Freud wrote, to be parents? It is certainly difficult because more or less consciously one would like a child in one's own image and likeness who, on the other hand, can take unpredictable and unexpected paths. Too often we literally want to build it, while we can only prepare the ground in which it will grow, caring for it, protecting it and loving it.
This book illustrates how families have changed in recent years and how fathers and mothers have changed. Families have shrunk, fewer and fewer children are born and they are born when the parents, in most cases, are over thirty. So the little ones live the life of adults right from the start, go with them to the pizzeria or on trips, share their conversations and their quarrels, in a situation where generational boundaries blur. The authors retrace the various stages of the birth and growth of today's children, capable of interacting with their parents and sharing rhythms, emotions and moods from the first days of life. The picture underlines the importance of exchanges between child and parents: they are the ones that allow to acquire the codes of interactions and affective communications, which will allow your child to face the successive stages of childhood and adolescence and to enter the world adult.
«We cannot replace our children, nor expect to build them as we would like, and we cannot even pave the way for them to avoid our mistakes. It is necessary to accept one's limits and prepare the ground in which children will grow up by caring for them, loving them and fostering their aptitudes and potential»
As mentioned earlier, presentation is part of the loop “Growing up, what a struggle”, promoted by the Golinelli Foundation and by AISMI, the Child Mental Health Association and which will focus on the themes of parenting, developmental psychology, learning and growth.
"One of the priority objectives of the Golinelli Foundation is, starting from early childhood, to educate young people for their cultural growth - he says Antonio Danieli, director of the Golinelli Foundation. How to deal with the educational issue today to help them so that, once adults, they are able to face life in an increasingly global, multicultural and largely unpredictable world? The Foundation has been planning training courses for almost thirty years and has gained the conviction of how fundamental the involvement of the whole community is: teachers, schools, institutions, parents, families. From this awareness, the "Growing up, what a struggle" cycle was born, which combines some fundamental pillars of the Foundation's approach: the idea of interdisciplinarity (different languages between writing and cinema) combined with a holistic vision of culture, lived as an experience close to education and training. The cycle of meetings addresses some of the main educational needs: the importance of giving young people ethics, values and responsibility (Ammaniti); inclusion as a right for all (Mazzariol); the ability to know how to overcome – avoiding traps – the challenges of scientific and technological development that today imposes on us (Benedetti and Morosinotto); the art of imagining the future (Nicola Campiotti); the contemporary – and of consolidated tradition – sense of an educating community (Governa and Marchesini)”.
