The actress Helmi-Leena Nummela and Roope Salminen were clear even before the birth of their child that the responsibility for care would be divided in half, says Anna.
Helmi-Leena Nummela wants to keep in touch with the child. Pete Anikari
The firstborn of Helmi-Leena Nummela and Roope Salminen will soon turn two years old. In an interview with Anna magazine, Nummela opens up her thoughts on parenting.
The Nummela and Salminen families sit down on Sundays and look at their parents’ expenses for at least the beginning of the week. Agree which one can pick up the child from the kindergarten and reconcile your own expenses to fit into family life.
He feels that sharing responsibilities greatly facilitates life in a relationship and does not cause bitterness and conflict.
– It may sound pragmatic, but parenting and a relationship are different things. As parents, it is a good idea to make interim financial statements. Tell me what’s bothering you or that I’m tired now. Everyday life can always be filed better, Nummela opens in Anna.
Nummela believes that effective communication is the key to a functioning everyday life.
– Even if there is enough love, things start to go awry without a good conversation, she says in an interview with Anna.
Transparency comes from home
Already in Nummela’s childhood family there was a lot of discussion. As a teenager, constantly saying and reflecting on one’s own actions even felt like a punishment. Now, as a parent himself, he understands the importance of the matter.
– Now I can appreciate that good voice connection, and I want to create one with my own child as well, Nummela says.
However, together with his wife Roope Salminen, they came to parenthood from their own point of view, so Nummela felt it was important to go through the child’s upbringing carefully.
While building a kind of parenting with Salminen has been important, he has brought a few things from his childhood home.
– For my own family life, I have also wanted a meal together from my childhood home, when we stop by each other and talk.