It's a well-known problem.

Well, not necessarily a problem.

More of a question: What should become of our child, our grandson, our granddaughter in these difficult times?

Important for mom, dad, grandma, grandpa: Just don't put too much pressure on the child.

But certain minimum requirements are of course desirable.

A PhD in Oxford, for example, a Nobel Prize wouldn't be bad either, maybe peace, but physics would be even better.

UN Secretary General would be enough.

As I said: Don't put too much pressure on the kids.

Career or not, they should have a bit of fun in life.

But that's always a thing with career aspirations.

Most things don't work out anyway and the best jobs are long-term anyway.

IOC president, for example, mafia boss, oligarch daughter, to name just three.

As you can see, it's not that easy to plan the professional future for the next generation.

Sometimes you think, okay, if none of that works, sports influencers might as well.

Say advertising clutter.

Is right on trend.

However, a while ago I read a sentence by the esteemed Sophia Thomalla in the FAS, which made perfect sense to me: Influencers, as I understood them, are a synonym for scroungers, because if you can do absolutely nothing, it is definitely overqualified for you an influencer job.

That made sense to me, because holding up a sneaker that I had been given and saying, it's the new Force GTSI2 from AdidasNikePuma and it's sooo cool and colorful and totally crass, you probably don't need a research fellowship at Yale for that In the end, the coal is still right, which is the decisive factor.

Another planning question that is hardly less important than the professional one is: what kind of sports should the kids do?

Of course, if they want to win Olympic medals, they have to do luge, dressage or bobsledding.

But who do you want to expect from your own family?

Not me.

So another solution has to be found.

The brother-in-law advocates tennis.

For him a fascinating sport plus an integrated school of life.

The son, however, urgently wants to protect his little daughter from the felt ball.

He thinks tennis is the very best sport, but only if you want to promote selfishness and self-interest.

He advocates basketball.

team sport.

social togetherness.

Such things.

Or for Far Eastern martial arts.

mastery of mind and body.

Not bad either.

Well, let's just see how things develop with the kids.

As I said, the most important thing is not to put so much pressure on them.