Press Appearances

“Parentalife is more than just an information provider; it is a partner that supports parents on their journey, equipping them with the skills they need to cope with the changes ahead. With a commitment to truth, innovation, and science-based education, Parentalife is leading a revolution in the approach to parenting.

In a world as complex as the one we will see in the coming decades, the certainty that we have raised emotionally strong children capable of tireless attention and empathy will allow us to hope for a more equitable and hospitable world for our species, which right now is threatened by its own mistakes and too-short-term vision.”

“The goal is to become the Italian reference for every area of parenting, and given the response from families, the path seems the right one.

According to the MAMISLEEP method, devised by Claudia Denti with the support of experts in Psychology and Health Sciences, the foundations of good sleep for child and parent are routines and behaviors “that you don't want to carry with you in the long run.”

Often the parent, gripped by desperation, indulges the child in ways that then in the long run become unsustainable-sometimes to the point of causing a sleep disorder in the child-when by applying small changes, both would rest better.”

“The storytelling of parenting has always been too focused on how wonderful it is as an experience, on the “mom's heart knows best” while leaving out the thousands of problems that parents face as early as pregnancy, most of which are perfectly avoidable with the right expertise and prevention. So we decided to give a safe space to those who wanted more information and preparation, and to support our work, we opted to offer guides, pathways and counseling that would allow these parents to take away many doubts about managing their children. We are often asked questions that are beyond our expertise, and we always, always refer them to the designated professional, whether it is the psychologist or the doctor.”

“For this campaign Meta selected 13 influential figures, including parents, educators and experts. In addition to Adriana Volpe and Andrea Maggi, who explained here for rainews.it why they chose to join, there are Francesca Barra and Diego Passoni, actress Nicoletta Romanoff, and model Marica Pellegrinelli. There are those who have made irony and comedy a profession, such as Germano Lanzoni and the instagrammer duo Mammadimerda. But also Tata Francesca, family counselor, teacher and writer, pedagogue and popularizer Silvia Marchetti, Claudia Denti, founder of Parentalife.”

“What is the advice to parents?

Claudia Denti, educator and founder of Parentalife, explains, “First get to know their child. Learn to know the signs of tiredness, learn about his or her rhythms and establish good habits, which include rituals of falling asleep, falling asleep again, safe places for their child to sleep so that the child slowly learns to regularize his or her sleep, thanks to these methods.”

“Connected Parents” affixed so that they can better protect their children. This is the goal of the new campaign launched by Meta to protect teenagers who use social media such as Instagram and Facebook. Indeed, at a time when digital platforms have become an integral part of daily life, parents and educators are faced with the great challenge of guiding adolescents to a healthy and responsible use of these tools, even though they are not their digital natives. “Connected Parents,” in addition to raising awareness of the topic among adults, aims to provide them with the tools they need to meet these challenges while ensuring a safe and peaceful experience for all.

“The pivotal element,” according to the two experts, ”is to put the figure of the parent back at the center because its educational centrality must be respected and safeguarded. It is no coincidence that, for many years now, we have been dealing precisely with the 'growth' and 'development' of the parent. We want-affirm Denti and Cirillo-to give children the opportunity to have trained parents who can educate them scientifically and make them live happy lives. Our goal is to combat seemingly innovative methods and disciplines that have many pitfalls.”

“Awakenings, inconsolable crying, sleepless nights. Compared to a century ago, children sleep an average of two hours less per day. Today, one in four children in the zero-to-three age group suffers from sleep disorders. With negative effects on their health but also on that of their parents. Claudia Denti and Severino Cirillo, founders of Parentalife, a parenting support platform that offers, among others, the “MAMISLEEP” guide, a method that is described as “gentle” and has already helped more than eleven thousand Italian families.”

This passage is excerpted from Impara a dire No, the book by Parentalife, a.k.a. Claudia Denti and Severino Cirillo, about their educational method. A method based on five principles, inherent in the acronym Umami: oneness, maturity, authenticity, wonder, independence.
“A day of our grandparents brought 30-40 stimuli and the brain worked at those rhythms there. If I open TikTok or YouTube I have continuous extreme stimuli and I can make the dopamine circuits explode, so that we need more and more stimuli,” comments Cirillo, ”and the more we get into this circle, the more the ability to make us wonder decreases.

“Today the parental role is substantially different from the one our mothers and fathers followed. A role that mixes, mistakenly, the parental function with that of friendship, building a less hierarchical relationship from the earliest years of life,” emphasizes Claudia Denti, creator, together with Severino Cirillo, of the Umami discipline, a method that places not the child but the parent at the center. But why is it wrong to become friends with one's children?”

“It is a guide, contained in an eBook, that proposes strategies and good rules to regularize baby's sleep and solve the problem once and for all. Severino Cirillo, Ceo of Parentalife: “For our body, the foundations of well-being are: breathing hydration, diet and sleep. Sleep does almost everything related to foundation, so it fixes the body, it fixes the mind, it fixes learning. If we skip the foundation we risk the rest of the house not standing.”

Becoming good parents is a complex art that, however, can be learned. Start by working on yourself, your own well-being and that of your children. This is well explained by Severino Cirillo and Claudia Denti, founders of the portal Parentalife and authors of the newly published book “Impara a dire no - Per crescere figli felici,” (Rizzoli, 224 pp, 17 euros).

There is no fixed, standard manual for defining the relationship between fathers and children; most often it is the result of the natural evolution of life, of the characters of individuals. Increasingly, however, in recent years, there has been the idea that parents should try to be friends with their children, with the goal of establishing an equal and friendly relationship that fosters sharing.

In a world where the education of children was often associated with authoritarian methods or the classic Montessori method, “gentle discipline,” a psychological approach that subverts traditional educational paradigms, has been gaining great interest in recent years. A discipline that, by placing its focus on listening to and respecting the individual, rejects the system of rewards and punishments, proposing seemingly innovative alternatives. But what does it really mean to educate one's children by applying only the “way” of dialogue and gentleness? Does it really work or does it have contraindications?