Thursday, March 28

“Nobody gets into mom and dad’s bed, not even the minister on duty”


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Rosa Pich is a mother of 18 children and arrives at the newsroom wasting energy and urging the staff present with her «Go! Go! Go!” (“Come on! Come on! Come on!”). She has made a hole in her schedule as a speaker and family coach to promote her book
“Life is beautiful and more so if you live as a family” (Planet)
, where he recounts the day-to-day life of the Postigo Pich family, who in his day had the largest number of children in school in Spain. Faced with the surprise and expectation caused by having had a child for a year, she points out with a big smile that “it was not a suffering. Now it’s over, and I think: take away what I’ve danced. Today the prize is much bigger than the few hours of sleep we live at that time».

Don’t you feel like you’re always justifying having 18 kids?

I think that people are free, and that they do what they want in bed. But it is true that when they ask me: «Rosa, why have you had so many children? Was it a challenge you set for yourself? An illusion? I answer no. That I married my husband, we were happy, my husband loved me… I came from a family of 16 brothers, he came from another of 14. Yes, it is true that in the first years of marriage we had three children in three years and my father, as an engineer, told me: “maximum production”,

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In fact, their first three children died of heart problems, and doctors advised them not to have any more.

Yes, the little girl died ten days after she was born, then the second died when she was two and a half years old, and the third we knew she was not going to live anymore. It was the year 1992 of the Olympics in Barcelona. It was all fireworks but I wanted to open the windows and say goodbye to the world. When my husband and I are told not to have any more children, that we had married with the hope of having a family –although we had not decided on the number–, we thought: «Everyone is crying around us but we are a young married couple, and no one gets into mom and dad’s bed, not even the minister on duty». So Perico, Juanpi, Cuqui, Magui, Tere, Rosita, Gaby were born… That was my decision. Do you not want to have more children? I respect it, you are happy like this, but leave me with my husband. In this world we live in we have to learn to respect each other. If you told me: “It’s because they are malnourished” or whatever, but my children are happy.

You became Chema’s widow at the age of 50.

Yes, people told me: “What an injustice!” but I thought: “What luck, because I have 15 children and we love each other and we take care of each other!”. In large families, joys are multiplied and sorrows are shared. Of course we cried, but life goes on and my little son, who was 7 at the time, deserved a happy childhood, and not a mother who was constantly crying on the street corners.

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What advice do you give to the young families who come to listen to you at your conferences?

In my time it was said “If you want to be well married, get married in the neighborhood”. But today we live in a global world. What I do recommend is having a courtship in which you talk about many things, because there are many couples who have not even talked about whether they want to have children or not, whether they want to travel, or just earn money. We want to educate our children and make them happy and this entails having some goals, not giving them everything they ask for, having some demands, defining a framework of action… Being a parent is a profession, it is the science of educating, of transmitting, to accompany in the first years of life, and also later. We have to be there helping them also to choose their professional career. To me, already married and the mother of a large family, my father told me: «Rosa, we have to talk». And he warned me with great affection if he saw that any of my children was having a bad time.

With so many people at home… What is the secret of your organization?

At home the purchase is online, always. I find myself unable to carry 200 liters of milk. And a son who protestedwhen something was missing in the pantry who is in charge of organizing the quartermaster and making the purchase once a month. We’re a team.

What is the best legacy you leave your children?

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We have to fall in love with the wonderful family life and learn to enjoy each day. We come from a pandemic, now a war and a crisis is coming. Issues? Like everyone, but it’s the attitude, positive by all.

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