One, two, three - education is (not) witchcraft

Raising children is not always an easy task. After all, you only want the best for your offspring. It's great to receive one or two well-meaning parenting tips. ­ Always makes sense? ­ Not at all! ­ Always helpful? ­ Definitely not. ­ And when you have children who have their own minds, then as parents, fathers, mothers... have good nerves. ­ Like Liza, who made a very special catch with her little Marie. One Saturday evening, while her husband was out with friends, the then two-and-a-half-year-old came into the living room with a pen and paper. I put both of them in front of Monika and said firmly: “Mom, give me a prescription. I finally want to learn something!“Even with the best will in the world, all the well-intentioned advice from those around the child not to overwhelm them was of no use. Marie learned her first letters and soon wrote her name...