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Children

How do we manage to be good parents?

Elternratgeber für ein gemeinsames Familienleben

When people have children, pretty much everything changes. When the baby finally arrives, your whole life is thrown out of joint! Raising your offspring to be polite, honest and responsible adults over the course of at least 18 years is probably the biggest challenge we can face. This is where idee für mich provides lots of advice and tips and serves as a valuable parenting guide.

How parenting guides can help us

Of course parents should be role models for their children, of course they should teach them values, take care of their health and encourage their self-confidence and talents. However, there are also many small things that make good parents - things that are not necessarily found in traditional parenting guides. Moms who, for example, organize a touching funeral ceremony for Pauli, the blue-spotted cichlid, despite having cursed and cleaned his aquarium every week, or mothers who enjoy eating their son's "cooked" soup made from cold stock cube water with pieces of apple, have already done a lot of things right.

Parenting guides can be an important help when it comes to the big questions of parenting. How do I survive my child's defiant phase and puberty, how do I support my offspring during their school career - advice and experience reports are often a good guide.

Raising children and more: idee provides tips for me

From cry babies to chaotic students - when it comes to raising children, every stage of life has its own special challenges for parents. How to keep everyday family life under control or how to protect children from the dangers of the internet - idee für mich offers plenty of experience reports and tips. All in all, a special kind of parenting guide.

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