He was a ship’s boy, a dishwasher, and education Pope for many parents. In some 40 books of the Dane brought his Credo to the point: “you Love your children but just.” Now Jesper died Juul 71 years.
Anyone who has children probably has one, if not multiple education counselor Jepsers Juuls are on the shelf. His numerous works, all best sellers and a little like Bibles for stressed parents – not only in his native Denmark, but around the world are almost. They have titles such as “parent coaching: Left” educate, “” no “out of love” or “boundaries, closeness, respect: On the way to a competent parent-child relationship”.
Rags-to-education Pope
Jesper Juul was on 18. April 1948 in the Danish port city of Vordingborg born. After he had finished school, he went to sea and work as a kitchen boy. The scholarship money he earned as earth and concrete workers, bartenders, and dishwashers. He graduated in history and Religion and worked as a teacher and social worker.
At a Seminar, he met the American psychiatrist and family therapist Walter Kempler and the Danish children’s psychiatrist Mogens A. Lund know who were his mentors and friends. Juul began training as a family therapist, and founded in 1979, together with Lund, whose wife and in cooperation with Kempler “the Kempler Institute of Scandinavia”, dedicated to family therapy. 25 years later, he picked up the “Familylab” from the baptism, the specialist on the advice of parents in educational matters. Juul was a sought-after expert in numerous talk shows and podium discussions, a welcome guest.
Always friendly: Jesper Juul parents also answered on the road education
Equal rights for parents and children
The Central theme of Juuls work was the “equal worthiness,” says Mathias Voelchert, head of the German Familylab. This is supposed to mean that children, and the Weak have the same rights as others in society. “It is the duty of the Strong to care for the Weak and not to exploit them or treat them badly.” Similarly, the educator and author Susanne Mierau spoke over the German radio: “We have been around for a long time, a movement then, that children be seen that the needs to be seen more,” says Mierau. “Jesper Juul has given the very wide and so very, very many people are able to achieve with his books. This has substantially changed that the children were more seen.”
Before Juul stated, children would have to be subordinate to the teacher. The therapist have held, however, and at the same time made it clear that one must find the path between boundaries and freedom. His most important advice to all parents: “Love your children but just.”
From “terrible to the soft father”
That is sometimes easier said than done, when the young strained nerves, has Juul, however, were also introduced. “In the first years of life of my son, I was one of the most awful fathers, you can imagine,” he once said. He had missed his Bud a slap on the butt. Only with the years he had become a rather softer father.
In the last few years, Juul was in for a severe nervous disease, from the navel down paralyzed in a wheelchair, said Mathias Voelchert the German press Agency dpa. Juul had been years of severe pain, the drugs would not have helped. “He has now fought seven years, now it went.” The teacher was 71 years old.