Viola Patricia Herrmann

This text aims to focus on the competencies and abilities of our children. It is intended to encourage parents to hold back at certain points of upbringing, and to replace fear with trust. I would like to strengthen the parents’ confidence in their children and give positive impulses for a lovingly less protective upbringing. Possible fears are also addressed, which I can certainly understand as a mother of four children. However, these examples are used to take the children’s perspective as well, and to convey how they can grow through new challenges. The text is intended to encourage parents not to transfer their own worries onto their children, but to give them enough freedom for their individual development and let them experience themselves as competent in dealing with challenging situations. In short: it is a testimony to the greatness of our children, whom we should lovingly encourage rather than suffocate with our own hang-ups.