Any mother of many children will tell us that her day starts at 6:30 am and ends around 11 am. She spends more than 3 hours a day cooking, 2 hours taking the children to school … And that’s not all. How do you find time for a career as an official? Let’s figure it out together.
Vladimir Putin appointed a new Commissioner for Children’s Rights – Maria Lvova-Belova. Anna Kuznetsova, who previously held this post, decided to devote herself to work in the State Duma.
The ex-Ombudswoman commented on the appointment of her successor on her Facebook page: “I hope that in her new post she will continue all the initiatives that have been developed with her colleagues – commissioners for children’s rights in the regions, experts, public organizations. And increase your success! For her part, she is always ready to provide assistance and assistance.
Kuznetsova, as an ombudsman, was remembered for her proposal to limit the funding of abortions, the requirement for a life sentence for pedophiles, her support for a ban on forced vaccination of schoolchildren, and lobbying for a law on the moderation of information on the Internet in order to “protect children from dirt, pseudo-heroes.”
The fates and views of women seem extremely similar. They are almost the same age: Kuznetsova is two years older than Lvova Belova – she is 39 years old, both from the Penza region, from a young age they are engaged in social activities and charity, they are members of United Russia.
Both women are married to clergymen. The husband of Maria Lvova-Belova is Pavel Kogelman, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church. The couple has nine children, four of whom are adopted. Anna Kuznetsova’s husband, Alexei Kuznetsov, is a priest in a rural church in the Penza region. There are seven children in their family.
Kuznetsova founded and headed the Pokrov Foundation, which provides assistance to large and low-income families. In 2017, at the initiative of Maria Lvova-Belova, a boarding house for young people with a severe degree of disability “Veronica’s House” was organized.
There are 13 more children with disabilities under the care of Lvova-Belova. They live according to the system of assisted living in the New Shore estate, which, by the way, was also built on the initiative of the new Ombudsman.
But a natural question arises: is it possible to keep up with everything, to be a good enough mother and a really good official?
“Mom can do 100 things at once”
“It is useless to talk about having many children from the outside,” says Larisa Surkova, a psychologist and mother of many children, a blogger, author of books, trainings and marathons. – When there is one or two in a family, it seems that it is impossible to cope with three, four, five, a family … But it only seems, because a person measures by himself. But when there are many children, everything is different.
First, they are interested in each other. And jealousy is extremely rare (more often it is between the first and second child).
Secondly, mom reacts differently to many things. And there is no need for different jokes here. She cares, she loves all her children. But she reacts differently to many little things like soiled clothes or keeping quiet. By the way, mothers of many children are often much more balanced. I understand it perfectly! One was the hardest for me.
Thirdly, mom always has tight timing, and she knows how to do 100 things at the same time. Therefore, the comments “the “many moms” have a hundred assistants on Instagram, and the “normal” large family is at home in soap, and she has no time for that” – they are also groundless …
Before discussing, I advise you to look at the age of older children. There are many assistants – where without them ?! I have a husband and older children. The school and the institute help a lot – they keep the children busy for half a day. On weekdays from 9-18 Dunya (younger) has a nanny, she takes her to the club for classes. And, of course, I’m lazy and could do all this myself. But my self-realization is important to me and my husband.
I am always at home by the time the children return, and we are with them on all trips. And, by the way, almost all Insta-polymoms have their own source of income. I look at them and admire them, it seems to me that they are a good help in setting benchmarks and examples to follow.”
Maria Lvova-Belova has not yet spoken about what legislative initiatives she plans to propose. She only said that in the near future she would begin work with an analysis of the appeals received by the ombudsman’s office. Well, let’s hope that she manages to find a balance and become a worthy children’s human rights activist, while remaining a good enough mother.