Udo Baer makes a radical change in the educational perspective: He is not interested in how children should be or how parents should raise them. Instead, the unconscious meaning of children's expressions of all kinds is decoded here. Adults learn to truly understand children of all ages. Why do children play hide and seek? Why do little ones often drop their spoons? And what does it mean when some children cannot play? The experienced educator Udo Baer succeeds in decoding the behaviors and expressions of children of all ages from their perspective and making the unconscious meaning clear. This concerns various aspects of children's experiences: the everyday expressions of life, as they manifest in play and typical preferences or rejections of children, as well as the special behaviors that indicate difficult life experiences.