SMP LeaderTalks

#35 | Secrets of successful parenting and parenting happiness

SMP LeaderTalks

17. August 2023

Georgiy Michailov meets Dr. Reinhard K. Sprenger - 1

On children as ego prostheses, shrinking parents, and self-care.

58 Min

This SMP LeaderTalk is a real highlight: Not only because management guru Dr. Reinhard K. Sprenger is a guest. But also because he is the first guest to participate for the second time. Sprenger is a high-profile leadership expert and management consultant. And he's bringing along a real highlight topic. Because this time it's not about leadership topics, but about parenting.

In his book "Elternjahre. How we live with children without losing ourselves" he deals with this sensitive topic. After all, parenting means enormous pressure on parents to do everything right. But what does "right" mean anyway? And does parenting always have to focus on the children? Sprenger changes the perspective. He looks through management glasses and realizes that it's the parents who have to be at the center of parenting.

What exactly that looks like, how parents manage to remain a couple despite parenting stress, and how fatal it can be to use one's own child as an ego prosthesis - Sprenger and Georgiy Michailov talk about this and more in this current episode of SMP LeaderTalk.

*Video only in German

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