Columns15 min«Children need parents who take time for them»Child and adolescent psychologist Fabian Grolimund on the biggest challenges facing parents today - and how they cope with them.
Education8 min«Children must be allowed to move freely outside»When is a child ready to walk to kindergarten alone? Educator Kerstin Ullmann on the expansion of a child's world.
Education4 min«Letting go is about having the right instinct»It's often not easy for parents to take a step back and let their children do their thing: three situations and how experts would deal with them.
Development3 min«It was important to us that our children think for themselves»The Vowles family look back on how it felt for them to let go. Including when they moved from Canada to Switzerland.
Education3 min«It's not always easy for me to let go in everyday life»Letting go has a lot to do with trust, says Yolanda Andreoli. Agreements and compromises give the family security.
Education15 minLetting go and giving children wingsLetting go is the inevitable course of events and essential for a child's development - and yet it is often anything but easy.
Family3 min«I had to let go of everything after the cancer diagnosis»Due to her breast cancer, Janna Ulrich had to reckon with not seeing her children grow up. She returned to life all the stronger for it.
Education6 min«Overprotected children are blocked in their autonomy»Psychotherapist Joëlle Gut on parents who find it difficult to let go and give their children more responsibility.
Education4 minLetting go changes depending on the development phaseParents must develop with their children and give them security and support on the one hand and freedom and trust on the other.
Columns3 minThe search for stress-free punctualityOur columnist wonders how punctuality and dawdling children can be combined without getting loud.
Columns2 minLetting go: Our topic in SeptemberChildren need a strong bond - and strive for autonomy. How parents manage to guide them through this area of tension.
Development3 minKindergarten: «Every child reacts differently to entry»The transition to kindergarten is a big step. Each child masters this at their own pace and goes through different phases.
Kindergarten13 minSchool - here we come!Mums and dads play an important role in the transition to first grade. This way you can accompany your child carefully.
Columns4 minLike birth, so the passage into adulthood?The process of cutting the cord with our editor's adult son shows astonishing parallels to his birth.
Education3 min«We deal with our fears consciously and constructively»Julie and Stefan Balmer share a job and housework. In addition to fears about the future of their child, they are worried about letting go.
Education17 minHow much parental anxiety is normal?Evolution has endowed us with concern for our children. How do you find a good way to deal with parental anxiety?
Education14 minHow your child learns to take responsibilityOver time, responsibility should gradually pass from parent to child. How mums and dads master this balancing act.
Education2 min«We should trust children to do something»Gwendolyn Nicholas and Nico Lopez Lorio let their sons travel around the city alone on public transport from the age of eight. Today, their five-year-old daughter is often there too.
Education3 min«I thought I would take it easy»Simone Steiner and Paolo Bogni were independent early on as children. This makes it all the more surprising that they often find it difficult to let go as parents.
Columns6 min«Happiness travels with you»: How letting go brings lightnessIn the fourth instalment of our family travel series, we declutter materially and emotionally and the author reveals what she really misses when she's on the road.
Columns6 minPromoting personal responsibility in the childParents should enable their children to take on personal responsibility. However, they must not leave them to do this alone.
Development12 minWhen children grow up - an opportunity for parentsDevelopmental psychologist Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello knows the feelings of parents when their children are growing up
Family12 min«Children need a healthy amount of neglect»Today's parents prefer to ignore life's adversities rather than prepare their children for them, says youth expert Allan Guggenbühl.
Family7 min«Mummy, what's it like in heaven?»Lina died of cancer at the age of six. Her mother tells us how the family accompanied the child to her death and how they are dealing with the loss.
