How I Can Help My Child Gain Strong Self-esteem

Heinz-Peter Röhr How I Can Help My Child Gain Strong Self-esteem Only when children have strong self-esteem they can flourish. Disorders in the development of self-esteem often involve mental and behavioral problems. Many parents would like to help promote the development of self-esteem of their...

Raising Children with Less Stress

Felicitas Römer Raising Children with Less Stress Empathy instead of scolding Preschool-aged children insist on more and more freedom from their parents. But how should parents react when their kids won’t take no for an answer or have temper tantrums? Scolding and punishing don’t really help, and...

What Is That Monster Doing Under the Bed?

Monika Specht-Tomann What Is That Monster Doing Under the Bed? Understanding and overcoming children’s fears Fear of the dark, of saying goodbye, or difficulties in preschool or school – children live through many troubling experiences that they have to master in the course of their development....

Baby, Why Won't You Eat?

Josephine Schwarz-Gerö Baby, Why Won't You Eat? Understanding and Solving Eating Issues When a baby doesn’t want to eat or drink, turns away from feedings or cries at every meal, parents worry about the well-being of their child, and rightly so. Their desperate attempts to get their baby to eat,...

Accompaniment Into Life

Heike Helmchen-Menke Accompaniment Into Life Religious Sensitivity Through Everyday Family Life More attention is being paid once again to the idea that children’s personality development should also include contact with religion. Children already bring a religious openness with them: Even the...

Wherever Children Are, God Is Already There

Albert Biesinger Wherever Children Are, God Is Already There Surprises and Discoveries in the Family Perceiving and mutually experiencing God within their own family in everyday life gives children a good portion of basic trust for their lives. The coexistence of adults and children succeeds with...

Education to Open-Mindedness

Claus Koch Education to Open-Mindedness Zoe's Story According to Gerald Hüther, "this book by Claus Koch is the most unusual book in the entire field of upbringing and education in recent decades": It doesn't give any tips on how to raise children but uses the form of a novel to describe how a...

Just Raise Us!

Elisabeth Raffauf Just Raise Us! What Children and Adolescents Need from Their Parents "Mum, if you don't want me to do that, then forbid it!" When children say something like this, it's clear that something is going wrong in their upbringing. And this is: Many parents no longer actively raise...

The Coach from the Children’s Room

Sebastian Keck The Coach from the Children’s Room How My Daughter Taught Me to Lose My Fear and Live in the Moment In a hectic and precisely planned world, people often lose sight of what is essential. This is what happened to Sebastian Keck, whose life was caught up in a maelstrom of anxiety and...

Love Is Colorful

Udo Rauchfleisch Love Is Colorful A Guide for Parents of Homosexual and Bisexual Children “By the way, this is my new girlfriend!” When this sentence comes from the daughter and not from the son, many parents feel like they have been offended – even today. Homosexuality is no longer demonised by...