Our topics in March: authority, parental sex and mobile phone control

Authority is a relationship. Our dossier looks at how parents and teachers can regain their authority. What should you do if your children catch you having sex? And is a parent allowed to check their child's mobile phone? The magazine will be on newsstands from 5 March. You can also order it online.
Editor-in-chief Nik Niethammer presents the topics of the new issue in the video.

Dear reader

The figures are as clear as they are shocking: according to a representative study from 2018, there were cases of psychological violence at every second school in Germany : teachers were verbally abused, threatened, insulted or bullied. In 26 per cent of the 1,200 schools surveyed, there were even physical attacks against teachers. Cases of cyberbullying were recorded at a fifth of the schools. «The figures can also be applied to Switzerland,» says Franziska Peterhans, Central Secretary of the Swiss Federation of Teachers (LCH). The main reason is the dwindling respect for teachers: «Conflicts escalate more quickly and are dealt with more harshly.»
A discussion about a lack of decency and respect quickly degenerates into a naysaying game: Teachers and headteachers complain that many parents today find parenting too difficult, lacking support and attitude; the result is children who cause problems at school. Parents' organisations say it's all wrong, that schools produce frustrated and demotivated pupils and that many teachers are not pedagogical authorities. Let's keep our heads down: both education and teaching require leadership, commitment and authenticity. No ingratiation, no laissez-faire.
Young people feel respect for parents and teachers who radiate a natural authority. Authority is a relationship. Our dossier looks at how parents and teachers can regain their authority.

The quality of parents is not measured by the rules they set for their children, but by the way they react when these rules are broken.

Jesper Juul, Danish family therapist

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Yours sincerely - Nik Niethammer