Rita Messmer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.

Rita Messmer (* 1954 in Bern ) is a Swiss educator, author and craniosacral therapist .

Life

Messmer is the originator and founder of the modern "Windelfrei", which originated in Switzerland. Her work at the University Children's Hospital in Bern with premature babies aroused her interest in early childhood development. During her stays abroad, she observed a "natural interaction and a peaceful and harmonious relationship between parents and children" among the traditional and indigenous peoples , from her point of view in contrast to the industrialized countries. If, according to Messmer, the biological systems are used correctly, this is also possible with us.

The focus of her educational and literary work lies in the promotion and practical implementation of this view. She relies heavily on Maria Montessori and the theory of “ sensitive phases ”. She was the first to point out that early cleanliness in infants is subject to a sensitive phase ( neural window ) that is open from the first day of life and closes towards the end of the third month of life. It shows that a baby sends appropriate signals and, from birth, relieves itself in a place provided for this purpose if the mother encourages and prevents it. This development step is biological, but must be stimulated accordingly for its development. The first year of life therefore becomes the most important year in a person's life. It describes other important sensitive phases. She substantiates her theory with the fundamental findings of Jean Liedloff .

Her work has been received in journals and in the media for the general public. She is supported in her work by the neurobiologist and brain researcher Gerald Hüther .

Works

Monographs

  • Your baby can do it! Promote self-confidence and independence in children. Kreuz-Verlag Stuttgart / Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-7831-2055-1 ( Beltz-Verlag , Weinheim / Basel, 2004 - With detailed instructions: Diaper-free, that's how it works! Updated and revised 5th edition, 2013, ISBN 978-3- 407-85980-8 ).
  • Learning with Young Children: How to Promote Your Child for Life. Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart / Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-268-00246-3 (Beltz-Verlag, Weinheim / Basel, 2005, ISBN 978-3-407-22889-5 ).
  • Too strong for violence: How children become mindful people. With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Althof, Paulusverlag, Freiburg Switzerland 2002, ISBN 3-7228-0575-9 (Beltz-Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-407-22912-0 ).
  • Larina: About the luminous power of thoughts. Publisher Via Nova, Petersberg 2006, ISBN 3-86616-046-1 .
  • Little Homo sapiens can do it! Strengthen the natural competence and independence of children. Beltz-Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-407-86544-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Off to the potty In: We parents. April 25, 2018 (PDF).
  2. ↑ Empty pots, full diapers. German Midwifery Journal, January 6, 2018 (PDF).
  3. ↑ crawling lesson below without: diaper-free education is becoming fashionable. In: Focus online. 4th March 2014
  4. ↑ No diaper strengthens communication. In: magazine “uneducated”. June 30, 2013 (PDF).
  5. ↑ Without diapers? In: German midwifery magazine. March 1, 2013 (PDF)
  6. ↑ Less diapers https://www.kleinerhomosapiens.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Weniger-Windeln-DHZ_19_07_8-1.pdf In: Deutsche Hebammenzeitschrift, July 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Messmer, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss educator, author and craniosacral therapist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern