BBC NEWS | Politics | Blair calls for better parenting
He said he could not raise people’s children for them but he could give the right tools to police and other agencies.
It seems to me that most of the problems are being caused by the fact that they *are* trying to raise ppl’s children for them.
Back off. Stop pushing children into childcare and parents into work. Admit that it would actually be more cost effective longer term (and let’s face it, that’s all these ppl understand) to have parents at home parenting, instead of children being raised in packs by strangers.
Ooh, controversial.
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9 responses to “BBC NEWS | Politics | Blair calls for better parenting”
Didn’t see this before I posted on Fluff but I said that to me there was an unspoken end of sentence, *He* can’t but the other agencies can… Or perhaps I have lived with a pedantic DH too long…
I like your “pack” description though, it describes the behaviour we are told requires such intervention to a tee.
Any idea who we should point these things out to?
I think the kind of research that is done on childcare institutions should be being done against homes, but it’s incredibly difficult to quantify, and I’ve no idea how you set it up.
There’s beginning to be some research done on home ed, but it’s being done on the educational aspects of it, rather than the social aspects of it, and tbh, it’s the social stuff that interests me.
I’m with you! Totally fed up of this whole country being fed the dulce et decorum est lie of “put your child in nursery and go to work and all will be well”.
I read this this morning with some degree of horror I must say. And I agree with you Jax (funnily enough).
Years ago, it was the community you lived in that helped you raise your kids; and that community included the extended family very close by. It is well documented that children benefit socially in the long term from being at home with parents (or indeed grandparents) until they are at least two years old.
Now those communities don’t seem to exist anymore – sadly – the govt seems to think it is responsible for telling parents how to parent. It doesn’t take expensive research to point out the obvious, does it? Nor will it ever be helpful to have a bunch of strangers working for a variety of agencies, butting in, telling people how to raise their kids.
Shall I get off my soapbox now? Taxi!
Totally agree with you Jax, unsurprisingly.
and me too, also unsurprisingly! I was also horrified to hear that particular headline this morning.
I’m managing to feel in almost two copletely different inds about this. On the one hand, something has to change, soe people do have to be ade accountable for the children in they bring into the world, they need tools to do it, a life worth respecting, not punishment though. How will a £1000 fine help?
On the other hand, i just laughed at the idea he thinks it wil help – the children and parents who do the most damage and cause most pain and terror are way beyond the help of a few parenting classes 🙄
or even completely and minds…
I must admit I was wondering. 🙂