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and schools, we are deeply concerned about the current rise in
distress—though unfortunately not surprised.
Unless structures and environments adapted to children9s
needs are created, and unless conditions are ensured that allow
pedagogues and teachers to meet children
with patience, engagement, and presence, we see no hope of
reversing the negative tendency that has rightly dominated media
coverage for some time. In that coverage, the role of PPR has been
highlighted, but we miss a focus on the complexity underlying the
growing distress, including the everyday conditions that children,
young people, and the professionals around them in daycare
institutions and schools have to navigate in. As PPR psychologists, we
are passionate about our work, but we become frustrated when the
conditions do not allow us to apply our professional expertise in a
meaningful and ethically responsible way in collaboration with
teachers, pedagogues, and parents. Many of us would like to invite
you, as politicians, into practice so that you can experience the
complexity we navigate every day in our efforts to support a
better everyday life for children and young people.
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We psychologists increasingly feel like caretakers in a house where
there is a fire in the loft, water in the basement, mold in the walls,
and a dead body on the first floor. At present, the best we can do is
help limit the extent of the damage.
If the entire child and youth sector had better conditions, we in PPR
could actually do what would have a real impact on children9s
everyday lives and what is professionally meaningful and ethically
responsible: to support a good childhood through both targeted and
preventive initiatives in collaboration with management and staff in
daycare institutions and schools, as well as parents. Currently,
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