Less paperwork at last
There is still good news from the bureaucratic jungle! The certificate in accordance with §4 of the Child Daycare Act is no longer required. From now on, parents can simply show the yellow booklet and vaccination card when their child is to go to a community centre or child minder.
Further interesting tips
School enrolment
Stress, excitement, anticipation, anxiety: the feelings surrounding starting school can be very different. But the time is emotional in almost every case - for children and parents. A few tips and thoughts from the doctor. His three children have already survived school, so he knows quite well what he's talking about :-).
Meningococcus II
Fortunately, meningococcal infections are very rare, but they can cause dangerous meningitis, for example. Everything you need to know about the clinical picture in Part I, here we look at what you need to know about vaccination.
Self-harming behaviour II
A difficult, stressful topic: self-harming behaviour or scratching. The doc gives us the most important facts in a nutshell. For anyone who would like to read more, here is a link to an interview that the child and adolescent psychiatrist Frank Köhnlein gave to the Swiss parents' magazine "Fritz und Fränzi".