Children of flowers

Several days ago, I reviewed last year's address by Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly. I wanted to remember what challenges the government faced before the start of the pandemic, what goals were set for the next year, where we were in general, what the reality was. Then, in 2020, the president devoted a third of his speech to family and children: new payments, increased maternity capital, additional payments to class teachers, new places in the nursery. Everything to make the child and parents more comfortable, safer, and calmer. Who knew that for the rest of the year they would make a huge prank and no one would feel safe.

Surprisingly, despite all the challenges of the covid year, the authorities coped with their promises. All families with small children received compensation twice. At the same time, there was no need to defend queues, fill out pieces of paper. Run through the chain of command to prove something. The government headed by Mikhail Mishustin has achieved what we have all dreamed of for a long time - no more bureaucracy, continuous online. In this sense, the pandemic played into our hands, the system had to look for resources in order to change at once and quickly what seemed impossible to change. You no longer need to cross paths with rude grandmothers with perhydrous hair while you are trying to get a certificate from a polyclinic or GBU. Having filled out the form for payment once, I received it and the second, already automatically, because the system is aware that I have a child.

I see what the government is doing with regard to youth, I see how much is being done for the guys from the provinces.

Equality should be equal in everything - in achievements, successes, opportunities.

And it's great that now attention is paid to younger children and, more importantly, to their parents.

In this year's appeal, the GDP made a lot of emphasis on supporting single parents.

Mothers who are raising a child, fathers who are left alone with their children need help, now they will be paid 5.5 thousand rubles each.

By the middle of summer, a comprehensive program of support for families with children will be developed.

Pregnant women in difficult life situations will be able to receive monthly financial assistance in the amount of 6.5 thousand rubles.

Before school, first-graders and older will receive $ 10,000 to prepare for the school year.

Such help may not be enough, because it would be great to create social, and in some cases, human support.

I understand that the root cause of all troubles is always physiology.

Until you establish food, sleep and drink, there can be no question of anything else.

When a person, a child has nothing to eat, he needs to survive, he has no time for education and culture.

Therefore, the material side of the government's actions is clear to me.

And when we solve these problems, when babies and their parents do not need to save on food in order to be able to buy clothes, then we should think about help of a different nature.

Mothers who have just given birth need support in the form of attention and second hands who can wash the baby, be with him, walk, maybe feed him, while the mother leaves the corny to go to the shower. It would be good if such services appeared on the basis of existing guardianship authorities, which often do not treat, but cripple families. And according to the principle of the already operating social service that helps the elderly, I would do the same, but with respect to parents with young children.

It would be nice to create a service of volunteer nannies, which are needed, perhaps, not so much by children as by mothers, most of whom are not just on maternity leave, but in social isolation and just go crazy.

And if the nannies also have their own parenting experience or, even better, medical education, or at least can advise on breastfeeding, then they would not have been worth the price.

And what would be the contribution to the education of future pediatricians, such an invaluable work in the field.

You see, there would be fewer moms with depression, driven to despair.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.