Nadie es Perfecto (Nobody’s Perfect, or NEP) is a parenting skills workshop aimed at ‘sharing experiences and receiving guidance on everyday problems to strengthen child development’. This article explores this workshop in terms of its relationship with the daily lives of participants, based on one year of fieldwork focused on families with young children in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago. While caregivers frame their parenting efforts as aiming to ‘hacer lo mejor posible’ (do their best) under difficult circumstances, our study found that facilitators take an anachronistic and homogenizing view of participants. Embracing a universalistic perspective of child development, they discourage participation and debate, focusing instead on providing concrete advice that limits the potential of the workshops. This article argues that by ignoring the different living situations of families in this socioeconomic context, NEP reproduces a prejudiced view of poor subjects that sees them as deficient and incapable of change.

纳迪斯（Nobody's Perfect，或NEP）是一个育儿技能研讨会，旨在“分享经验并接受有关日常问题的指导，以加强孩子的成长”。本文以与圣地亚哥的低收入社区中有小孩的家庭为对象的一年的田野调查为基础，探讨了该研讨会与参与者的日常生活之间的关系。虽然看护人将他们的养育工作旨在在困难的情况下“尽力而为”（尽力而为），但我们的研究发现，辅导员对参与者的看法过时且同质化。他们拥护儿童发展的普遍观点，因此不鼓励参与和辩论，而是着重于提供限制研讨会潜力的具体建议。