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| Josephine Schwarz-Gerö | | Baby, Why Won’t You Eat? | | Understanding and Solving Eating Issues |
When a baby doesn’t want to eat or drink, turns away from feedings or cries at every meal, parents worry about the well-being of their child, and rightly so. Their desperate attempts to get their baby to eat, however, often trap them in a vicious cycle. And this, although the baby knows what the solution is, if only its signals could be correctly interpreted! |
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| Felicitas Römer | | Flown the Coop | | How to Make the “Empty Nest” Cozy and Inviting Again |
Even the period after puberty holds many surprises and challenges in store for mothers and fathers: what’s to be done when Junior doesn’t want to move out and takes it for granted that there will be a home-cooked meal on the table every night? When the 19-year-old daughter insists on studying crystallography? |
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| Wolfgang Bergmann | | Putting Your Mind To It | | How You Can Help Your Child with Concentration and Learning Difficulties |
Many children have problems learning at school. They are intelligent enough, but nonetheless cannot read, write or do math as well as they should because they find it difficult to concentrate and focus their attention. They are often restless or hyperactive. |
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| Paul Klingen | | School Without Side Effects | | How Children and Their Parents Can Best Manage the School Years |
School makes you smart. But often enough it has side effects: pressure to achieve, conflicts with schoolmates, battles over homework and disputes with teachers make life difficult for children and parents alike. |
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| Helga Gürtler | | Happy as Kids in Mud |
Children explore their surroundings with all their senses. They love to play in mud, to smell everything, to try everything, to touch everything with eager fingers, including their own bodies. As long as it’s only clothing getting dirty, parents are usually relaxed about it. |
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| Andreas Krüger | | First Aid for Traumatized Children | | With an introduction by Luise Reddemann |
Children are traumatized through accidents, violence and natural disasters every day. Severe emotional injuries – caused by e.g. sexual abuse, the accidental death of a sister or a father's serious illness – often have grave consequences: psychological disorders, later drug abuse or even physical illnesses. |
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| Felicitas Römer | | 7 Ways of Raising Children | | With illustrations by Jens Rassmus |
Cuddles, coaching or tough love?, “I’ll show you who’s boss!” or “Let’s just take it as it comes …”? Should we give our children cuddles or challenges? |
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| Jochen Metzger | | The Kids Are in Charge | | An Experiment |
What would happen if the children were given full responsibility for the family? Jochen Metzger and his wife dared to find out. For one month, their daughter Lara, 13, and son Jonny, 10, were in charge. |
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| Dieter Krowatschek | | Animals Make Children Strong | | How Animals Support Children’s Development |
Children who grow up with animals learn to take on responsibility and to have empathy with others. They are often more even-tempered and tolerant than their contemporaries without pets. |
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| Christine Rankl | | Quiet Nights |
“Sleepless nights? – Here’s some real help!”
Christine Rankl has a solution for every kind of sleep problem, from infants to school-aged children. |
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