So I ask her: "Do you think that being a mom is stressful?"īurgos looks at me as if I'm from Mars. In general, Burgos makes the whole parenting thing look - dare, I say it - easy. There's little whining, little crying and basically no yelling or bickering. In return, the children offer minimal resistance to their mother's advice. She often tosses off little warnings about safety: "Watch out for the fire" or "Don't play around the construction area." But her tone is calm. The older kids aren't in school because it's spring break.īurgos is constantly on parental duty. The middle daughter, 9-year-old Gelmy, is running around with neighborhood kids - climbing trees, chasing chickens - and her oldest daughter, 12-year-old Angela, has just woken up and started doing the dishes, without being asked. Her youngest daughter, 4-year-old Alexa, sits on her knee, clearly trying to get her attention by hitting a teddy bear on her mom's leg.
Sitting on a rainbow-colored hammock inside her home, Burgos, 41, is cool as a cucumber. Sign up for NPR Health's newsletter to get the stories delivered to your inbox. Does raising kids have to be stressful? Is it really dangerous for babies to sleep with mom? Do chores have to be a fight? Over the next month, NPR travels around the world for ideas to make parenting easier.
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