the kitchen in plain view — that’s how seriously we take not inventing anything
Almost everyone announces their content once it’s already polished. We’d rather show you the kitchen: these are the pieces coming, what they’re about and their honest status. Each one is born of a founder’s thesis — said in his own words — and is written with him, not before. That’s why there are no dates here: we promise finished pieces, not calendars that just sound good.
the linked drafts are in Spanish for now
The founder’s thesis, tough but loving: the debate isn’t about banning the screen but about out-competing it with presence. From his own experience — no tablet, video game or screen beats a mango smoothie, a water-balloon war or a goal achieved.
The other side of the same coin: virtual relationships, emotions and bonds are real. «Emotions happen in the brain and in the heart, not in the body or the skin» — the physical medium doesn’t decide the reality of your child’s experience.
To be a mother or father is to be the Sancho of a Quixote: to enter the child’s adventure instead of watching it from the doorway — to enable the knight without lying to him about the windmills. So our Quixotes never have to disown their dream: may it mature, instead of dying of realism.
The father who sees his child once a week, or every other weekend — without judgment, because it wasn’t his choice. The question that matters: what to do with those brief times together. Perhaps it’s the most common reality of all, and where we can help the most.
Shared habits that survive the test of time — and the difference between the ones that look each other in the face (the table, the game) and the ones that share a screen. Movie night has its place; it’s the talk afterward that turns it into connection.
The taste of the smoothie, the cold of dawn, the smell of the kitchen: sensory stimulation fires emotions, and emotions seal what’s learned. Why preaching leaves no memory — and experience does.
How do you get your child to talk to you and tell you things? Stop asking — and tell them yourself. The founding anecdote is the founder’s: the «fine» at the school gate melted the day he began telling his own day first. With its practice to take away: Tell them your day.
The sister piece: for your child to open up emotionally, tell them how you feel — without the automatic «fine», with the four reassurance phrases (it’s not because of you, it’s normal, I’m handling it, I already feel better for saying it) and with the dose made clear: sharing isn’t unloading. Practice: Tell them how you feel.
Reading the Tao Te Ching with your child, in little pieces: 81 two-minute chapters, the sport of the chapters «that make no sense», and the bridges to anime, wuxia and Star Wars. Wu wei parenting: create the conditions and step aside. With its practice: A chapter of the Tao — and in queue, the Tao in 80 days.
The series that opens the Tao Te Ching: very old, very short books treated as serious toys, with their authors’ legends told as legends — labeled documented / legend with source / later fiction. Already in draft: The Art of War (winning without fighting) and The Book of Five Rings (the swordsman who also painted). Read the introduction.
The house’s most contradictory advice, from the founder: technique evolves, patience is a professional resource, and «muscular discovery» can’t be rushed. The irreplaceable role is another — the sparring partner. With its practice: Be their sparring partner, not their coach.
The founder wrote and published it on March 9, 2019, and we recovered it because it aged in reverse — it got better: children don’t have a «limited» understanding of the world but a limitless one, and whatever you don’t explain, they will explain to themselves. It is the direct ancestor of the «Cuéntale» series — its station 3.
Your child is not one person — they're many, and today you met a new one. The founder's personal thesis: the breakfast kid is not the school-pickup kid; the rule doesn't change with the weather, but the way in does. With its practice: The house forecast.
Don’t let the toy stores or the influencers decide: expose options, watch which one they respond to, and water where it sprouted. Fandom as a cognitive gym — and the dusty piano, at peace. With its practice: The muscle of passion.
Two of these pieces are published on purpose as a pair: one says presence beats the screen, the other that the virtual is real. This isn’t an anti-screen site — it’s a pro-presence site.
The whole family’s week in a single table: each column a person, each row a time of day. Where two or more overlap, the slot tints itself; what was promised to the child gets a star, so it never gets lost among the rest. Fill it in on screen or print it blank for the fridge.
It helps you decide (does that new class create or destroy time together?), gives structure to those who don’t have it, prevents the anxiety of the undone, helps you keep promises — and coordinates all the adults who parent, in one home or two.
The founder's theses, already jotted down, waiting their turn in the kitchen. We publish them like this, raw, because an honest roadmap also shows what doesn't exist yet.
The family's «us»: rituals, its own language, the stories that define who we are together — and why that identity holds a child steady when the world pushes.
Beyond teaching and ordering: what we do teaches more than what we say. Example isn't a parenting method — it's the method.
You can't expect a process to yield the results you want if you don't step into it. Parenting isn't supervised from the shore.
The games they play, the media they consume, the interactions they take part in, the influencers they follow, the context they move through — know it before you judge it.
The single most important pillar for raising children of integrity: your word is your bond. Don't say yes when it's no. Don't promise what you can't — or don't intend to — keep.
Literal, not metaphorical: that they'd rather be at your house. A comfortable, safe place where they and their friends can be who they are, with privacy but in view, and where they can always come back without being questioned.
A space or a moment — not necessarily physical — where they can say what they think, feel and fear without fear of judgment or punishment. The «whatever happens, I'm here». Overlaps with what already exists in «Cuéntale» — to review and link.
If there’s a topic your home needs and it isn’t here, tell us. This roadmap is cooked in conversation — with the founder and with the families who’ll read it.