“If I help you do your homework or activities, am I doing it wrong?” A specialist explains how to identify when we are taking away children’s autonomy and how to provide adequate parenting. On many occasions, parents tend to overprotect their children due to fear or insecurity caused by different scenarios in the child’s life. …
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Faced with the role of the traditional father, an authority must be built that, more than obeying, calls us to build together. What is the place of the father in our life? The norm, as Freud described it? Is it the authority, who guides, provides or protects? Is it the love, the companionship, the warmth? …
The Local editor Rachel Stern, an American mother in Germany, talks about how she sees raising children in Germany – and what is often starkly different from parenting styles in the US. In her opinion, the main differences between the upbringing of children in Germany and the United States can be summarized in seven points. …
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A guide on how my child can make tomorrow’s world a better place “Why is there so much garbage in the forest” or “Why did you kill the spider?” – these are typical children’s questions that show that children want to understand the world and naturally have an ecological and empathetic feeling for animals and …
Numerous accidents involving children can be avoided, not least if children are sufficiently encouraged in their movement skills. For Child Safety Day 2022 on June 10th, the BAG Mehr Sicherheit für Kinder e. V., in cooperation with the German Gymnastics Youth and the Safety in Sport Foundation, focuses on promoting physical activity. This topic is …
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It all started with signals from JGZ Utrecht: they noticed that children in special (primary) education relatively often struggle with being overweight or obese. These signals were investigated by public health epidemiologists and, unfortunately, were confirmed. This was the reason the Utrecht Healthy Weight Partnership for Youth made it a focal point. “These are the …
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Today, on World Health Day, which this year is dedicated to ‘Our Planet, Our Health’, we announce our partnership with BNP Paribas Cardif. BNP Paribas Cardif helps JOGG in making the school environment healthier by stimulating healthier food and water drinking. For this purpose, the initiatives Dorstbar and Kokkerelli are expanded. “BNP Paribas Cardif is …
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How do you, as a municipality, strengthen the cooperation between the social and healthcare domain? And do you work on tackling health problems from a broad perspective? At JOGG, we work with a broad network of municipalities, social organisations and businesses to create a society in which all children and young people grow up healthy. …
Pop star Raffi Boghossian visited 126 School “Petko Todorov” in the capital to award the most active students who created their own exhibition entitled “Water In Our Lives” Over 200 children from first to seventh grade celebrated the World Water Day in 126 Primary School “Petko Todorov” in Sofia as part of the Healthy Kids …
Healthy Kids in Bulgaria is an educational program for balanced nutrition and physical activity at school, which was launched in 2012 in 10 schools in the capital and which attracted more than 3,500 families with children between the ages of 7 and 13 from two Sofia districts – Triaditsa and Studentski. Healthy Kids in Bulgaria …
