Prof. Dr Roland Reichenbach, an educationalist and Professor of General Education at the University of Zurich, is pictured in the main building of the University of ZurichLearning16 min«Teachers are the most important factor in learning success»Professor Roland Reichenbach on the myth of intrinsic motivation, the value of practice and the role of the teacher.
Education14 min«What matters is how parents behave, not what they say»What role do values such as respect and politeness still play today? A significant one, says child and adolescent psychologist Philipp Ramming.
Education13 min«Parents must learn to ask better questions»Education expert Nicola Schmidt reveals how to encourage teenagers to talk and what role kneading pizza dough plays in this.
Portrait of Israeli psychologist and author Haim Omer at his home in Hod HaSharon, Israel, 18 September 2019.Health15 min«Suicidal young people need to feel that their suffering is taken seriously.»In order to help teenagers at risk of suicide, their social environment should also be involved in the therapeutic work at an early stage, says psychologist Haim Omer.
ADHD13 min«ADHD is diagnosed too quickly and too superficially.»Sociologist Pascal Rudin criticises that the threshold for diagnosing ADHD is too low. He argues that increasing medicalisation shifts the burden onto the child and obscures the view of social injustices.
Development11 min«Young people need to squirm a little in their boredom»Elisabeth Weybright observes that adolescents often struggle with boredom. Are they no longer able to tolerate uncomfortable feelings?
Education13 min«Fathers can sometimes be constructively aggressive.»Not only mothers, but fathers are also overworked, says Egon Garstick, the forefather of father counselling in Switzerland, in this month's interview.
Simone Hunziker, systemic supervisor and coachSchool14 min«We treat children like objects.»Supervisor Simone Hunziker supports families and schools in crisis. She knows what is lacking when children become aggressive.
Media16 min«Parents need to learn to assert themselves when it comes to mobile phones.»Media expert Daniel Wolff knows how much time children spend on their mobile phones every day – and what they experience online. Parents would do well to supervise them more closely.
Family13 min«Detachment is a process that can take a lifetime»If you want to have a healthy relationship with your parents, you first have to detach yourself from them, says psychologist and author Sandra Konrad.
Education12 min«Being unhappy is a precious feeling»Psychologist Claus Koch explains why unhappiness is important for a child's development and how parents can react to it.
Education13 min«There is a lot of strength in the menopause»Cycle expert Josianne Hosner on the potential of the menopause and why she sees it as an opportunity for the mother-teenager relationship.
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.
ADHD12 min«Children usually know what they have to deal with»Instead of talking about "problems", psychiatrist Ben Furman says it is more helpful to define a skill that the child should learn.
Learning13 min«Sometimes it's really hard to be a child»Many conflicts arise around learning. Child and adolescent psychiatrist Oliver Dierssen advises parents to clearly define their own role.
Family13 min«If you want to reduce mental load, you should hand over entire areas»Psychologist Filomena Sabatella researches mental load and advises couples on how they can divide the invisible work fairly between them.
Education13 min«Parents often don't trust children enough»Psychologist Giulietta von Salis argues in favour of letting children experience all their emotions and facing up to their own feelings as parents.
Education13 min«Children must become strong themselves - through their own actions»Education expert Herbert Renz-Polster on authority, the art of setting the right boundaries and the question of what makes children strong.
Development14 min«Children who are trans often know this very early on»Questions about gender are omnipresent, many young people consider themselves to be trans or non-binary. What is it all about?
Health12 min«Intestinal diseases in children have increased»Gastroenterologist Carsten Posovszky explains how intestinal diseases and nutrition are linked in children.
Family13 min«Children can't just philosophise like that»Philosophising is more than just having a good conversation, says educational researcher Christoph Buchs and explains how children can be taught to do so.
Education14 min«We have to become crisis managers of our everyday family life»Mums and dads today are faced with high demands, says parenting course leader Stéphanie Bürgi-Dollet. How to raise children without violence.
Education14 min«Parents need a lot of confidence. In themselves. And in life»Many parents want to bring up their children in a needs-orientated way and primarily fulfil their wishes, says educationalist Inke Hummel. The author of the guidebook believes that the reason for this is a reluctance to engage in conflict that stems from their own childhood.
Health14 min«Nothing relaxes as quickly as self-inflicted pain»Scratching, burning, hitting - psychiatrist Frank Köhnlein knows why self-harm is on the rise and how parents should react.
