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parenting
Parents must be free to chastise and also to smack
Daily Express,
31 January 2012
Tottenham MP David Lammy should be commended for stating that parents need to have the right to smack their children in order to restrain them from anti-social behaviour.
Instead of drugs, children need a good dose of parenting
The Australian,
26 November 2011
As far as the American Academy of Pediatrics is concerned you can never drug children early enough.
Nanny state has no business muscling mums and dads out of the way
The Australian,
5 November 2011
Australia's Early Years Learning Framework is based on the assumption that government can never intercede early enough in children's lives to compensate for the incompetence of their parents.
It’s time to expel the ‘experts’ from family life
spiked,
12 September 2011
In repackaging parenting as a superbly complex, almost scientific task, a gaggle of experts hopes to colonise our personal lives.
The real danger to our children
The Australian,
7 September 2011
Sometimes the most well-intentioned initiatives to protect children end up with unexpectedly disorienting consequences for everyone concerned.
Common sense, not research, nurtures our kids
The Australian,
9 July 2011
Most parenting research is not only unnecessary, but also serves to confuse the life of mothers and fathers.
‘Western parents need to chill out about their kids’
spiked,
9 June 2011
The author of Paranoid Parenting says that far from needing a stricter ‘Asian’ approach, Western parenting is already way too intensive.
Good, bad or none of our business
The Australian,
9 April 2011
Nanny state intrusion is creating a generation of guilty, paranoid parents. An essay by Frank Furedi in The Weekend Australian.
Nick Clegg takes ‘parental determinism’ to a new low
spiked,
19 August 2010
It is mad to claim, as the deputy PM does, that poor parenting is more important than poverty in screwing up children’s life chances.
A showtrial of children for being naughty
spiked,
25 May 2010
The conviction of two boys for attempted rape is not only a travesty of justice – it also exposes society’s screwed-up attitude towards childhood.
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