Health3 minAnxiety disorders: What can parents do?Never before have so many children and young people suffered from anxiety disorders and phobias as today. What's going on? Expert Silvia Zanotti categorises.
ADHD3 minLecture cycle Cosmos Child: All dates and informationKosmos Kind: Experts explain important aspects of child and adolescent development - in a way that is understandable and relevant to everyday life.
Videos1 minAccompanying children's play - what makes sense?In his lecture, Oskar Jenni explains why children play and explains the different forms of play and children's willingness to play.
ADHD3 min«The environment plays a central role in ADHD therapy»Paediatrician Oskar Jenni explains in an interview why there is no "easy" diagnosis for ADHD.
Development3 min«Waiting is the wrong strategy for dyscalculia»Six per cent of all children in Switzerland have problems with arithmetic. Early diagnosis protects children from frustration, says neurologist Karin Kucian.
Videos1 minPedagogical authority - an outdated category?Roland Reichenbach talks about the quality, possibilities and limits of educational relationships in the Kosmos Kind lecture.
Health3 min«We need to reach children who don't move on their own initiative»Exercise and sport are good for children. They learn to deal with winning and losing and experience a social system that shapes and supports them.
Columns1 minWhat does a family need to be happy?How do we become happy? And how can we ensure that our family is happy? Psychologist Fabian Grolimund talks about this with Nik Niethammer.
Education1 minPreventing and «curing» eating disordersEating disorders often begin in childhood, but are sometimes only recognised and treated in adolescence or adulthood. In her presentation, Simone Munsch explains how they can be prevented.
Education1 minAdolescence - opportunities and challenges in adolescenceWith the onset of puberty, adolescents are faced with major changes. How can parents and teachers support adolescents during this phase?
Columns3 minWhat does a family need to be happy?Happiness is not necessarily loud or colourful. It often manifests itself in supposedly inconspicuous moments of everyday family life, says psychologist and successful author Fabian Grolimund.
Videos1 minGifted children at school: Become learning experts!How do you actually recognise that a child is gifted - how can this be determined? And why do gifted children and young people often have problems at school?
Videos1 minWhat will the school of the future look like?Dieter and Nicolas Rüttimann explain how innovative pedagogy can support the thinking of children and young people both within and across disciplines.
Videos1 minGrowing up multilingual - what does that mean for a child?Moritz Daum presents important study results and explains what parents can do right and wrong when raising their children in several languages.
School3 min«Even gifted people have to learn to deal with failure»What do gifted children need to be successful and happy at school? Three questions for Dominik Gyseler, educational scientist and expert on gifted children
Videos1 minMy child doesn't speak: How shy is too shy?Why are some children "chatterboxes" at home and can't get a word in edgewise? Speech therapist Sabine Laerum knows the answer.
Development2 min«Adolescence is a particularly vulnerable phase!»Fear of death or huge rage: for some teenagers, puberty is not harmless.
Videos1 minAlphabet soup in your headWhat do we know today about the neurological causes of a reading and spelling disorder? In her lecture, Silvia Brem explains how to recognise the first signs of dyslexia and gives an insight into what happens in the brain when learning to read.
Videos1 minPranks and shenanigans: valuable experience or social incompetence?Where are the limits of tolerance when children don't behave? "Children need zones where experiments are possible. They must be allowed to break out of their bubble and discover life!" demands Allan Guggenbühl.
Videos1 minParenting is not a feel-good spa"Parenting is failure in instalments. But fail with dignity, competence and elegance," says Philipp Ramming. He is one of Switzerland's leading child and youth psychologists and an expert on parenting issues.
Development3 min«Early support is very valuable for further development»There is a child in every class who finds reading and spelling difficult. This is often recognised too late, says neuroscientist Prof. Dr Silvia Brem.
Videos1 minFrom I to you - children's social behaviour in the first years of life"Can a child be taught social behaviour as a skill? And what is innate and therefore developmental?" Paediatrician Dr Caroline Benz traces the way in which children develop a personal identity and relate to others.
Videos1 minHow language gets into the head"Mother tongue doesn't just start when children begin to utter their first words." Neuropsychologist Martin Meyer outlines how language develops in the child's brain.
