In general, Burgos makes the whole parenting thing look - dare, I say it -Įasy. 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. She's raising five children, does housework and chores - we're talking about fresh tortillas every day made from stone-ground corn - and she helps with the family's business in their small village about 2 1/2 hours west of Cancún on the Yucatán Peninsula. There's no other way to put it: Maria de los Angeles Tun Burgos is a supermom. This story was originally published in May 2018.
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