Category Archives: Children

#224: Sleep

Now I've heard an interesting contribution to sleep. If we cut him 7 Sleep hours, then we wake 28 On time! The only, If we 3 Minutes are awake, then it's not happening for us, because we no longer remember. And when we remember, we were more than 3 Waking minutes.

This means, BY SLEEP is an illusion to which I am the last 5 Years had nothing clamped. What actually is not bad, that it is not possible for me, realistically, staying asleep. My kids watch so even more often than 28 On time, which in turn explain the open eyes of the Princess, if they had sometimes seen me in my sleep (what kind of scary – much – looked) and the Jr. at least 1 x per night for more than 3 Minutes is blithely, to wake me up – Greater than 3 Minutes – so I can get him. But otherwise I fall asleep almost immediately and continues to have no real problem with falling asleep and according to the post I thus suffer from insomnia NO. What is in turn facilitating.

It shows me, that these ideas running in my head. I'm curious, if I'm going to be really early rested fitter and more tomorrow, now that I know the scientific knowledge of sleep. What I'm wondering is, however,, if I'm going to buy me an alarm clock with Aufwachlicht, because with a clever production of cortisol also want to wake up and work better Muntersein.

#223: Climate change and so

Lately I have been much with climate change, political ecology and climate change deals. And actually I do not know, where to start! There are still climate deniers, who wants to read more about their abstruse ideas, just go to skepticalscience.com, because certainly the glaciers have recovered, But the glaciers are not everything. The continents heat up much faster than the oceans. In Austria we will be around + 2 City, during the global level in 0,8 Grad liegt. Anomalies are also now much more noticeable than they were earlier. Heat events are not only all 5 Measured years but annually.

The aim of which is climatologists, Politics, Should some citizens and businesses would be a global warming of + 2 Degree and that this warming should remain constant and stable. Then we would have 2050 still struggling with major changes, because the coastline in Europe would shift and rainfall in the north would be much more and in the south many times less. I think, we can not imagine, what does this mean. As will change our lives. 2050 I am indeed very old, but still statistically alive, not to mention my twain.

Univ. Prof. Helga Kromp piston has pointed out in a lecture, that their generation has this climate change accompanied and contributed massively. However, it is our generation, undertakes nothing against the, as always to fight percentage points. And it is suggested to initiate a change in the younger, just here lies the paradox, we are in a seemingly hopeless dilemma. On the one hand we need to reduce (Emissions) and expand (Geo-engineering, Green, …), and yet we have the 28.8 exhausted the resources of the planet for a year (Earth Planet Day). We should theoretically ca. 1t / co2 consumption per head per year, the typical Austrian consumed 10t.

A reduction translucent economically impossible – you also think of the interview of Voest Board, warns of exodus. We bite into the non-existent tail. And our children in the middle.

We need to cooperate more interdisciplinary, to work out solutions. And I agree with Kromp-piston, the said, that it fluctuates between optimism and sheer horror scenarios.

#222: Puberty, we get the second

How can we please be serious as a parent, if a 11 year old daughter says the soon filled with ardor:”I want to say only one (with really dramatic gestures, red spots on face and hysterical high C), I read this book not here voluntarily!”

Background, we have their more or less (rather less) voluntarily 5 Given books to choose from, they could read, including White Fang by Jack London knowing, that the princess dog and animal stories like. But these are just all Books, not cool (1906 written) and anyway who cares, was wir “Elderly” have read.

Of course they will tell me the, what they do not want, what she finds unfair, as we her life hell (not today at least) make, because we need to, because we know just, that is not the case, that we mean only good, that specify a book can make reading fun and hopefully will. And yes, I'm glad, that there are only those issues with which we grapple. But it is a good workout for all’ the Coming.

#221: Friends you can choose

And family does not. I have taken it well with both. On the weekend we celebrated the 5th birthday of Pam-Pam. And with Picnic Blanket, Prosecco, Schnitzerln, Himbeersaft, Roast beef meat and camisole etc.. on the Jesuits in the Prater. There were 11 Children, more parents and adults and even 2 young adults, which accepted the invitation. The sun was shining and the kids had played in the finest baby rib Unterleiberl manner Soccer. I can not be more grateful for this wonderful day, because not only, that we had marvelous weather, we have eaten and drunk almost all. A 10 Clock as we walked out our front door, I felt just like my balkanesischen roots from each crate and cooler (3 Boxes, 2 Coolers) out cheered. Locally, we has the best table and spread us out in accordance.

We played football. Men were injured (as it should be with the appropriate forward role and Primal Scream). Children fought and got along. Parents slept, chatted and enjoyed the sun.

I am grateful for these friends, whose children are the friends of my two children (big and small!). You've made this day a wonderful experience.

#220: Puberty, we come

It is stupid, if not more so reminds himself of his own puberty or when they started, how long and how you felt, namely actually. I thought, that my parents do not understand me anyway, total uncool, common and simple parents were, I remember, but this deep inner feeling verblast somehow and relativized with the decades.
Und ja, I even with my mom “scuffled”, I was of the opinion, that they could not have the fashion jewelry my grandma. And I yelled at them, Slammed doors and was rude. How this must have been my parents, I wonder sometimes.
In a corresponding argument with my parents, I have accused them, that they themselves are to blame, they would indeed need to have children.

My princess is not quite so far away and still light years away from such a behavior, but the emotional roller coaster rides start slow and make me feel, I'm sitting in a Wagon, the slowly gains momentum and with ups and downs is always faster. Only with the brakes is me becoming more aware, that does not work.

#219: Violence and Philosophy

What has violence to do with philosophy? Violence is still struggling to find itself in its Begriffsdefiniton. This alone seems tremendously violent expire. Where up until the 1960s, the focus was on the physical violence, transformed by Habermas, this focus, because ultimately it could be argued, that everywhere around us around violence is. Social, linguistic, political … Violence is common to all media, in art and in their parents- and being a child.

Even Sartre indicates, that violence does not exist without the presence. Thus guilt are anyway the other. And who does not know the? Not only of his children and himself there seems to be getting easier to relativize. He or she started and thus acts to be justified.

A definition, which appeals to me personally, is the, that violence is negated and violated the others in their diversity. Where otherness describes not visible otherness necessarily, which of course can (starting with big ears) but often is just something, what is not tangible, what makes us different in our way from the others.

Children are particularly affected, one hand, in their own distinct from the others and on the other hand in the Injured If by words and language and behavior. You can be at least equally injured, as by physical force. But we see, unfortunately, often the only visible injury and not the other.

#217: Learning to learn

In high school we had a workshop, parents learn with the children to learn and really is almost too late. Children need to learn already before, how to study properly. What can be their individual strategies, around vocabulary, To memorize grammar and homework watchlist.

For the homework note clearly WhatsApp has established with us, there occurs the exchange of numbers and temporal information, however, solutions are still bearing the words “this is cheating yes” not distributed. In general, we are very demanded as parents – weekly tests in biology, English and German (I'm going to Abprüf professional) and of course the daily homework. Where I find it questionable, if in English 3 Sites Words (including. complete sentences) Week must be learned for week, However, pages and even a chapter was omitted in the book, as children, the “alone” to teach. How does it work?

Today is a re- “Learning to Learn Workshop”, the last I'm almost asleep, whether the frontal teaching and the “NO-na-ned-well-intentioned-advice”. I do not have time to be there, my princess and I'm already sorry. Here, a didactically well aufbereite learning hours would certainly valuable for the children would be, because they all of a sudden from the “No-No” Elementary school in the world “uns-bist-du-L egal” Gymnasiumswelt Fallen. I will collect the princess all time, because the path to adulthood is long enough and does not have within 6 Be completed months.

#213: Formation stress

Education is much more than a festzuschreibendes goal in a society, it is the most important possibility and opportunity to a stable future to ensure. And for a country, a company is about much more than just economic concerns, but also to the security and stability of a democracy.

Education should not be the elixir power of the upper classes and elites also. Children will have fun and enjoy learning, Learn values, stand apart from GDP and perfect CV.

I belong to the low percentage, who are said, that they have little chance of a higher education, than their parents. My father has a completed apprenticeship, my mother was not even the time of their lives and laborer. Remote education I would not call my parents house still. With my father we discussed politics, Economic and social issues and often or almost constantly they were violently and run.
“You're's not there yet, where I am today. You'll see already, if you're even in my age …” My mother was the equalizing valve, tried to keep calm or crying in between, that they can no longer stand the us, every Sunday the same … You have us (my brother and me) left the room, learn to, to learn self-, to be critical.
So it's true, that education begins in the family network and needs to be strengthened. But it must not lead to, that the pressure on children is so enormous, that children only allowed to work – become a decal on their dedicated parents.

As countless often required, the education system should be changed. Ein System, that even with no school days from the 19 Century shines (Tuesday after Pentecost and Easter is therefore free, because teachers had earlier in the churches organ playing and we therefore asked them a free day available), but is more than hinterfragungswürdig, particularly, where we in 21 Century arrived.

Only WHY can not change this system, because I fail in my imagination, especially if ALL (Politics, Parents, Experts, Non-experts, Teachers, Student, …) want it.

#208: Write g'scheit

Since the beginning of the week I'm in Derrida, Deleuze and philosophy fever. I am writing a term paper that is over … THE TOYS! Yes and it can be clever shit. Because what toy is really? When is what toys? It may change constantly, may be THE one, then what else. That what everyone just decides. If you look at children, then we see, that of the branch of combat arms (Probably the Most Popular, what is even more ancient human rooted in us.) be converted to ski Plug. Our Legomaxerln have no hands, Hair and sometimes the only head hangs at the base of the other Maxerls. Nothing seems like it is and nothing must be!

Something that we have adults anyway have already forgotten. But we unconsciously we make this quite yet to Use, by making our sports shoes at once the scapegoat of the lost game, the club no longer is, he once was. Or one thinks of the games, we play at work or in society, where we exploit clothing and other symbols of power to our Toys, to represent something, where we can ask ourselves, whether we are ever.

Thus, I deal with the stuff and try to draw parallels, the need to give us any answers, but a thought, which in turn can lead to the next.