Jana Martincová (born 19 October 1970)[1] is a Czech doctor, author of educational books for children and adolescents, populariser of medicine, promoter of sex education and preschool preparation, founder of the Babyonline publishing house.[2] She is the author of the comprehensive preschool preparation publication Předškolákovy týdeníčky pro chytré hlavičky (Preschool Diaries for Bright Sparks) and sex education books.[3]

Personal life

Early life and education

She was born in 1970 in Opava. Her sister, six years older, suffered from Prader-Willi syndrome.[4] She graduated from a grammar school in Opava and considered a career either as a teacher or a doctor, as her family was mostly composed of health professionals and teachers.[5] She decided to study medicine and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Masaryk University in Brno. After graduating from medical school in 1995, she was unable to enter clinical practice because she did not have a grandmother to care for her future children, which, as she recalls, was one of the conditions for admitting female doctors to the hospital at that time. Therefore, she sought employment in a pharmaceutical company and worked her way up from a representative to CRA (Clinical Research Associate) to Product Manager by the time her first child was born.[2] She engaged in educational activities that targeted both the general public and physicians.[2] While caring for her child, she provided external consulting.[5] This led to the Lipidarium project for patients with elevated cholesterol levels, on which she collaborated with Prof. Štejfa and other experts.[5] In 2004, she started her second maternity leave with her son, who was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).[2]

Family

She met her husband Pavel at the medics' ball on the first spring day of 1991. They have two grown-up children together.[6]

Educational and research activities

After the birth of her son, she gave up her previous career and, due to the lack of quality childcare information, founded the professionally guaranteed parenting portal Babyonline.cz.

Even though the people around her saw her son as an "untrainable and uneducable idiot", Martincová herself sees great potential in children. She often mentions in interviews that what every child needs most from a parent is unconditional love, time and education. It is quality education that she believes has been one of the main and effective weapons against her son's ADHD.[6]

Due to the lack of quality educational literature, she started creating books for her son herself. The first book published by Babyonline was a book of rhymes Rhymes for Bright Sparks (Říkačky pro chytré hlavičky, 2008). Concerns about her son's entry into the first grade led her to write the only comprehensive pre-school preparation in the Czech Republic: Preschool Diaries for Bright Sparks (Předškolákovy týdeníčky pro chytré hlavičky, 2010).[7]

According to Martincová, the regular weekly preparation with Preschool Diaries produced results – as, thanks to this preparation, her son moved forward in his development. Five years later, he was accepted to a selective 8-year grammar school, later he programmed a sex education website (sexeducat.com) in both Czech and English as part of his Students` Professional Activities project (SOČ), gained a CAE language certificate at C2 level and became a member of Mensa ČR.

The website sexeducat.com is based on her books for teens What other girls won't tell you (Co se od kamarádek nedozvíš, 2016) and A Ten-point Guide for Boys (Desatero pro kluky, 2018), which she wrote together with a team of experts. Because she has been involved in her son's sex education since preschool, the media has compared them to the pair of central characters of the Netflix series Sex Education, Otis Milburn and his mother Jean.[8][9]

Martincová comments on the time and effort put into her son's education by saying: “No child is born stupid but only becomes stupid through laziness, first of its parents and then its own.”[10] Her educational work is characterized by its playful and systematic nature, where she progresses from the simple to the more complex, with repetition of what has already been learned, creating logical links and connections between the information so that the children's “individual knowledge fits like a piece of a puzzle into a picture.” She educates by illustrative examples, the books are connected by the story of the central character Clever Eyes.[11] In the sex education books for teens, he goes by the everyday name of Tom, along with other characters, his sister Lilith and their mother-doctor Eva.[12] In the books, she tells life stories to children, with the reader becoming the arbiter of how each character conducts their life. In adolescents, this helps form their own opinion, logical and critical thinking. She explains this by saying: “It is always better for a character in a book to make mistakes than for the reader to make mistakes in real life.”[13]

She emphasizes two important periods of the educational side of child development, preschool (0-6 years) and adolescence. For preschool, she states that what parents miss in this period in the child's education will never be made up for. In the case of adolescence, when a new body and psyche are being formed, adolescents need tremendous informational support.[14] Sex education and preschool preparation are passed on not only in books but also in the form of courses. The pre-school preparation course is also available online.[15]

Survey on the topic: Children at Risk of Pornography and Online Sexual Aggressors

In 2020, together with sexuologist Petra Sejbalová, they conducted a survey from their own sources of among 1,655 respondents aged 13 to 20. They found that schoolchildren as young as 6 years of age, which was the lower limit in the survey, were accessing pornography. These were the ones most vulnerable to attacks by sexual aggressors on the Internet. Only 58 percent of this group were able to break off the conversation with the aggressor. Meanwhile, among students who first saw risky sites at an older age or not at all, more than 90 percent were able to resist aggressors.[16][17][18]

The survey showed that good sex education at home or at school significantly reduces children's interest in pornography – by more than half. The problem, according to the authors, is that some adolescents see pornography as "semi-normal sexual behaviour". These may then end up with unrealistic ideas about their partners' sex lives or unrealistic expectations in sexologists' offices.

Medical education projects

In addition to the above mentioned projects, she founded the professionally guaranteed parenting portal Babyonline.cz in 2007 and in 2014 also the portal ZdravéOmlazení.cz (Healthy Rejuvenation).

In cooperation with doctors, she has also published a number of educational brochures. The first brochures were created in 2008 for pregnant women 20 Things about Pregnancy with Babyonline.cz (20x o těhotenství s Babyonline.cz) and for new parents 20 Things about Childcare in the First Six Months with Babyonline.cz (20x péče o dítě v prvním půlroce s Babyonline.cz), both of which are still published annually. Other publications are Over 40 and Feeling Good (Prevence po 40, 2015), Brochure for Teenage Girls about Growing Up (Brožura pro náctileté dívky o dospívání, 2017) and Vaccination: A Different Perspective (O očkování trochu jinak, 2020).

Bibliography

Books from the edition For Bright Sparks

  • MARTINCOVÁ, Jana and Věra TAUTOVÁ. Říkačky pro chytré hlavičky. Illustrations by Petra KUBÁČKOVÁ. Brno: Babyonline, 2008. ISBN 9788090421608.
  • MARTINCOVÁ, Jana et al. Předškolákovy týdeníčky pro chytré hlavičky. Illustrations by Petra KUBÁČKOVÁ. Brno: Babyonline, 2010. ISBN 9788090421615.
  • MARTINCOVÁ, Jana. Písmenkové kartičky pro chytré hlavičky. Illustrations by Petra KUBÁČKOVÁ. Brno: Babyonline, 2010.
  • MARTINCOVÁ, Jana. Jak děti přicházejí na svět. Illustrations by Petra KUBÁČKOVÁ. Brno: Babyonline, 2010. ISBN 9788090421622.
  • MARTINCOVÁ, Jana. Mamo, jak przyszedłem na świat? Z życia wzięte. Illustrations by Petra KUBÁČKOVÁ, translated by Renata BARTOŠ. Brno: Babyonline, 2019. ISBN 9788090713222.
  • MARTINCOVÁ, Jana. Přísloví a hříčky pro chytré hlavičky. Illustrations by Štěpánka MIKULÍKOVÁ. Brno: Babyonline, 2022. ISBN 9788090713246.

Sex education books for teenagers

  • MARTINCOVÁ, Jana. Co se od kamarádek nedozvíš: Průvodce moderní dospívající dívky o sexu, líčení i zdraví. Brno: Babyonline, 2016. ISBN 9788090421677.
  • MARTINCOVÁ, Jana. Desatero pro kluky jak na pubertu, holky i sex. Brno: Babyonline, 2018. ISBN 9788090713208.
  • MARTINCOVÁ, Jana. 10 wskazówek dla chłopców na temat dojrzewania, dziewczyn i seksu. Translated by Anna Dorota KAMIŃSKA. Brno: Babyonline, 2021. ISBN 97880907132-91.
  • MARTINCOVÁ, Jana. Czego nie dowiesz się od koleżanek o seksie, makijażu i zdrowiu. Translated by Anna Dorota KAMIŃSKA. Brno: Babyonline, 2021. ISBN 97880907132-53.

Other works

  • MARTINCOVÁ, Jana. Dětský kalendář 2012 s příslovími. Illustrations by Petra KUBÁČKOVÁ. Brno: Babyonline, 2011.
  • MARTINCOVÁ, Jana et al. Zdravé těhotenství. Brno: Babyonline, 2012. ISBN 9788090421639.
  • TROJANOVÁ, Petra a Jana MARTINCOVÁ. Žena po 40 – sebevědomá a v kondici. Brno: Babyonline, 2013. ISBN 97880904216-53.

References

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