What are the issues that trouble our children and how can we help them?
Practical advice from someone who knows how to read children and is also a parental coach: Professor Schulte-Markwort is regularly presented with problems and issues faced by children and youths in his clinic. Often he has to first help them make themselves understood. He therefore listens very carefully when they pour their hearts out to him and let him share their concerns – thereby becoming a mediator between children and their parents.
In this book Schulte-Markwort is addressing parents – of young children right through past puberty: Empathetically he presents the children’s perspective and explains in clear terms what is normal and where an illness begins. When is professional help required? And when do we adults have to act and change our stance, in order to accompany our children competently and thoughtfully through life.
Through case studies it quickly becomes clear how, for example, fear can develop a momentum of its own. How can nine year-old Deborah be made to go back to school despite her stomach aches and fear of failure? And how to get through to an aggressive teenager who doesn’t give a damn about recriminations and punishment?
Thematically all encompassing – from questions about computer usage to child therapy to fear to divorce and anger attacks – Professor Schulte-Markwort, expert for the effects of societal development on children and youths, addresses questions and problems from the lives of today’s children.
