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Competition Between Parents: About the Myth of the Invisible Umbilical Cord

2021-02-04T23:28:16.904Z


Men adore their mothers, it is said. My son's father also believes that our boy is naturally more closely related to me than to him. A contradiction.


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Father and son: Is there a special connection between mother and child?

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Every evening my husband and I take turns singing the same three lullabies to our son.

It's hard to say which of us played "The moon has risen" more often while the little one snuggled into his bedspread.

The only thing that is clear is who our son prefers to listen to: "Mom, you better sing," he recently whispered in my ear.

Photo: Lina Moreno / DER SPIEGEL

Anna Clauß

, 39, is the mother of a five-year-old son.

She works full-time and knows how to raise children to be happy despite being absent and constantly short of time.

Or at least successfully persuade it. 

Objectively speaking, that cannot be true: My husband sang for years in the church choir, which his father in turn led for a long time.

The men in my family are definitely more gifted singers than me.

My son's judgment is so unfair that I tried to hide it from my husband.

When the five-year-old revealed it to him one evening, he was visibly struck.

It understandably hurts him that our child seems to enjoy my company more than his - although as a father he spends as much love and time by his son's side as I do.

Because we split work and care equally: we both work full-time, we both work from home, and we both do without emergency care in kindergarten.

When my husband cooks, there are homemade carrot and zucchini fritters with yogurt dip.

When I cook, fish fingers with a barrier red and white.

Maybe that's why I'm ranking higher than him?

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