School backpacks, bags, jackets, keys and a wallet hang on her, and there was also an emergency pee drill behind the nearest bush: Even with Nina Bott, chaos often reigns in everyday family life. And what can children learn from this? A whole lot!

Yes, there are those perfectly organized and just as disciplined parents who lay out their children’s school supplies and clothes with them the evening before, and who also neatly chop the fruit and vegetables for the lunch boxes with a time advantage, whose children get ready in the morning get ready for school independently and without objection according to the impeccably designed schedule and, after returning home, even without being asked, put all their things back in their proper place just as nicely. And then get to work on your homework.

And then there is us.

Sometimes 24 hours isn’t enough

We have to set the alarm clock three times, quickly look for two somewhat similar socks per child in the morning – “and where is the second shoe?!?” – and for the little ones we get cocoa on the way to daycare because there’s time to uncover them Breakfast is not enough. In the evening, the children throw their things somewhere – or leave them to their mother on the way home. Like Nina Bott (45), who shows herself fully loaded in a picture on Instagram. And as the comments show, Many other guardians feel the same way. How good it is to see that they too would sometimes be happy to have more than 24 hours a day – and to have eight arms, as the actress and mother of four writes. The children can not only learn a lot for life from the exemplary organized parents. But also from the others. Five things spontaneously come to mind.

Chaos trains flexibility

Children who occasionally cope with a chaotic situation with their parents are not easily thrown off course when something at school or on the way home or on the road goes differently than they are used to. They don’t let themselves be thrown off their feet straight away and may react just as creatively as they saw their parents do, for example in morning “emergency drills”.

Calmness helps

Stressful situations are difficult and particularly challenging for children. But even adults don’t always have everything under control, and children should know that. It also takes away the pressure of having to be perfect everywhere.

Don’t turn down help

The neighbor spontaneously offers a ride in the morning chaos? The neighbor invites you to have lunch together during the short break? Accepting help creates closeness – and in the long term a larger network that supports you in emergencies. Children who observe this in their parents will also have fewer inhibitions about gratefully accepting help. And vice versa, of course, also offer help.

Sorry costs nothing

Importantly, if things went haywire again and we perhaps used a wrong tone: let’s discuss the situation later and, above all, let’s apologize to our loved ones! Not just to show them, as mentioned above, that we don’t have everything under control and that we own up to our mistakes. But for another good reason: They learn from us to stand up for themselves and apologize when they mess up.