Wholesale One, two, three - raising children is (not) witchcraft

Raising children is not always an easy matter. After all, you only want the best for your own offspring. So it's great when you get one or another well-meaning parenting tip. Always sensible? Not at all! Always helpful? Definitely not. And if you also have children who have a mind of their own, then as a parent—father, mother—you really need to have nerves of steel. Like Liza, who had caught a very special one with her little Marie. One Saturday evening, her husband was out with friends, and the then two-and-a-half-year-old came into the living room with a pencil and paper. She put both in front of Monika and said decisively, “Mom, give me a dictation. I finally want to learn something!” No amount of well-intentioned advice from those around her to not overwhelm the child could help; Marie learned her first letters and soon wrote her name...