What is parental leave? | Raising children – You should know that!

What is parental leave?

Parental leave, or parental leave as it is called today, enables all employees who receive child benefit to take leave to raise children during the first three years of their lives, i.e. until the child reaches the age of 36 months. It is up to the parents themselves to decide how long the parental leave should last. Furthermore, with the employer’s consent, parental leave can also be divided into two periods, but these must be determined in advance.

In the case of adoption or when a child is taken into full-time care, the entitlement to parental leave begins as soon as the child is in the household. Often these are older children, which is why the three years are not the first three years of life, but any three years up to the eighth birthday. Even in the case of a normal birth, it is possible, if the employer agrees to transfer 24 weeks of parental leave, i.e. to take it at a later date until the child’s 8th birthday.

In this transferred period, however, the unemployment insurance does not apply; it is only valid for the first three years after the birth of the child. The parental leave must be applied for at least seven weeks before the beginning of the leave. During this period of parental leave the employee may not be dismissed, exceptions are possible only in micro-enterprises.

What are educational goals?

During the upbringing of children, influence is exerted on the development and behavior of the child. The children are brought up from an actual state to a target state, with goals playing a role. The educator wants to achieve something through his upbringing, namely how the person to be educated should behave and act now or in the future.

This presupposes that a goal has been considered and set beforehand. Accordingly, education is only meaningful and well realizable with an educational goal, since the educator has an idea of something worth striving for. Educational goals, which are often mentioned by parents, are often values that are conveyed and should be lived by the child, such as honesty, tolerance or respect. Such educational goals are sometimes different from the goals that have been worked out in public organized education (school, kindergarten, etc. ), as these are often primarily learning goals.