Pride, anger, love: parental feelings. Our topic in July

What parental emotions characterise the way you interact with your children? One thing is clear: being a parent opens up a whole new world of emotions. Editor-in-chief Nik Niethammer talks about his feelings in the cover film and in the editorial. Our new magazine with the dossier Elterngefühle will be available at newsagents and online from Tuesday, 25 June.
Nik Niethammer talks in the cover video about the dossier Elterngefühle and the report about a couple with an open relationship.

Dear reader
Do you recognise this? The boy has just slammed the door in protest, you are standing in the corridor with your pulse racing and you have what feels like a tenth of a second to decide: Do I go
Do I go after him, grab him and really give him a good blow job? Or do I take a deep breath, count to ten and try to talk to the unruly child in the evening?
Do you know what drives me when it comes to the question of the right behaviour in such situations? Was I the same as a child? And how did my parents react to my tantrums? For me, looking back on my own childhood is one of the most fascinating aspects of being a parent.
Of course, times were different back then. But the basic values of parenting - unconditional love, trust, respect - remained the same. And so have the emotions that mothers and fathers go through every day and that characterise their relationship with their children: Love, care, shame, anger, guilt, pride, fear. And happiness.

I remember one particular moment of happiness in my childhood as if it were only a few days ago. On 8 March 1971, the two heavyweight boxers Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met for the first time in New York. An event of the century. My father had woken my brother and me up in the middle of the night, we were sitting in our pyjamas
We sat in front of the black-and-white television in our pyjamas, the picture crackled, the sound crackled. And we were simply happy and proud to experience this special moment with our father. From then on, something very special connected us, my brother, my father and me.
How parents' feelings towards their children are shaped by their own childhood experiences is one of many topics in our dossier «Parental feelings».

My daughter's class teacher has given the 1st grade the following homework for the summer holidays:
Climb a tree.
Lie in a meadow and
and look up at the sky.
Secretly staying up late at night
stay up late at night.
How great is that?

(Found on Facebook)

When Beat W. Zemp was elected Switzerland's top teacher, Jean-Pascal Delamuraz was President of the Swiss Confederation and David Hasselhoff was singing «Looking for freedom». In the same year, the Berlin Wall fell and the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska. That was 1989. 29 years as President of the Swiss Teachers' Association LCH - only the Queen, Margrethe II of Denmark and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden have been in office longer than Zemp. 29 years in the service of the teaching profession - Beat W. Zemp has experienced and made a difference. To say goodbye, Evelin Hartmann and I took a look back with the passionate jazz lover. And elicited a remarkable statement from him: «There is no shortage of teachers».
Dear Beat W. Zemp, on behalf of the Elternsein Foundation and the editorial team of Fritz+Fränzi, I would like to thank you for the pleasant and extremely successful collaboration over the past few years. All the best to you - and all the best to your successor Dagmar Rösler.
Yours sincerely, Nik Niethammer