Nicola Schmidt

Nicola Schmidt (2020)

Nicola Dolores Schmidt (* 1977 in Munich ) is a German science journalist and bestselling author as well as the founder and managing director of Artrechte GmbH.

Life

Schmidt was born in 1977 as the daughter of the visual artist Johanna Schmidt and the social scientist Karl Stroetmann . From 1995 to 2000 she studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and trained as a science journalist in Munich, Paris and Dortmund .

From 2000 to 2003, Schmidt was a permanent editor at the specialist magazine Computer Reseller News in Munich. She then ran a freelance editorial office as a freelance journalist together with Elmar Török until 2009, which wrote for Focus Online , the Financial Times Deutschland and the Süddeutsche Zeitung , among others . Since then she has blogged and writes for specialist magazines. Schmidt published several bestsellers on child development from the perspective of behavior and evolutionary research .

Schmidt has two children and lives with her family near Bonn.

Act

In 2012, Schmidt founded the “species-appropriate project” to disseminate this knowledge and to support families. It combines upbringing and child development with questions of sustainability and ecology. It trains parents and professionals, especially midwives and child minders.

Schmidt's first non-fiction book ("Courage - how children grow beyond themselves") was published in 2014. It received greater attention for the "species-appropriate" guidebook from the years 2015, 2017 and 2018 from the Kösel publishing house : "Type-appropriate - the other baby book" followed by " Appropriate to species - the little baby book "and" Appropriate to species - the other toddler book " Together with co-author Julia Dibbern she wrote “Slow Family”, a plea for more mindfulness, time and trust in dealing with children, followed by “Wild World”, a guide to “relaxed parenting”. In 2017, Schmidt and psychologist Maryam Boos developed concrete project ideas on the subject of courage and violence prevention for specialists in day-care centers in “Courage - experience strong feelings” . With her Spiegel-Wissen bestseller “Geschwister als Team”, published in 2018, she also positioned herself in the media as an expert on educational issues. Current works of the year 2019 are a family calendar and the guidebook “Educate without scolding”, which also became a bestseller in Germany and Switzerland.

Works

• Courage - how children grow beyond themselves . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-407-72715-2 .
• Appropriate to the species - the other baby book . Kösel Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-466-34605-9 .
• Slow Family: seven ingredients for a simple life with children . Beltz Verlag , Weinheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-407-86426-0 .
• Species-appropriate - the little baby book . Kösel Verlag , Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-466-31082-1 .
• Courage - experience strong feelings . 40 project ideas for the day care center. Beltz Verlag, Weinheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-407-72758-9 .
• Appropriate to the species - the other toddler book . Kösel Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-466-31096-8 .
• Siblings as a team: ideas for a strong family . Kösel Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-466-31104-0 .
• Wild World: How children grow in the world and parents stay relaxed . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim 2019, ISBN 978-3-407-86569-4 .
• Appropriate to the species - The other family calendar 2020 . Kösel Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-466-31117-0 .
• Upbringing without scolding: Everyday strategies for a species-appropriate upbringing . Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-8338-6856-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Nicola Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Nicola Schmidt
• Website of the species-appropriate project
• Videos with Nicola Schmidt on LitLounge.tv

Individual evidence

1. ↑ To be a species-appropriate family and become independent . In: Passauer Neue Presse . February 18, 2019, p. 28 .
2. ^ "Appropriate handling" with babies . In: Göttinger Tageblatt . October 29, 2016, p. 11 .
3. ↑ Business register. Bundesanzeiger Verlag, accessed on July 25, 2019 (Neuruppin District Court, HRB 12505). 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Vita. Nicola Schmidt, archived from the original on April 27, 2008 ; accessed on May 23, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Jochen Wegner, Nadja Matthes: We can do it differently . In: Focus magazine . January 6, 2003, p. 96-104 .
6. ↑ Schmidt's product test. In: Focus Online. Retrieved May 23, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Bits and Bites. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on May 23, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Imprint. Nicola Schmidt, accessed on May 23, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Catrin Frerichs: Education with all your heart. In: Weser courier. April 7, 2019, accessed May 23, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Nicola Schmidt: About me. Retrieved July 25, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Tips for parents from Nicola Schmidt . In: Reutlinger General-Anzeiger . March 22, 2019.
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Nicola Schmidt. In: Catalog. German National Library, accessed on July 31, 2019 . 
13. ↑ To be a species-appropriate family and become independent . In: Passauer Neue Presse . February 18, 2019, p. 28 .
14. ↑ Live the family consciously . In: Kronen Zeitung . October 25, 2016, p. 31 .
15. ↑ The decelerated family . In: Märkische Allgemeine . Potsdam daily newspaper. June 21, 2017, p. 26 .
16. ↑ Learning from the Stone Age . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger . May 30, 2019, p. 20 .
17. ^ Nicola Schmidt: My books. Retrieved July 25, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Never compare . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . May 21, 2019.
19. ↑ In demand family coach: Nicola Schmidt convinces parents again. Best seller life & health. In: book report. September 11, 2019, accessed February 5, 2020 . 
20. ↑ "Education without scolding". Bestseller, non-fiction book (Switzerland). In: book report. Retrieved February 5, 2020 .