Don't Let Super Nanny Usurp your Family
I have watched the 'nanny' programmes and wonder how many people choose to remain childless because of them. I have said it before and I'll say it again, parenting is for the fittest and the toughest and only God sees what you do in those unseen acts of love and discipline for your children. You will not go unrewarded.
From the Daily Mail...
Daily Mail UK 22nd May 2007
Child-rearing experts such as Supernanny and Gina Ford are damaging family life by undermining parents' authority in the home, it has been claimed. There was growing confusion among parents over how to bring up children because of the parenting advice 'industry', a leading sociologist warned. He said relying on techniques from the so-called experts could be destroying parents' confidence in their own child-rearing abilities, weakening their control over their offspring. Professor Frank Furedi also warned that the spread of the nanny state was adding to bewilderment among parents.
Professor Furedi, a sociologist at Kent University, was among academics to challenge increasing interference in family life at a twoday conference at the university. He claimed figures including TV Supernanny Jo Frost, whose discipline techniques include the 'naughty step', portrayed mothers and fathers as incompetent. He said: "They basically assume the high ground - 'I am the supernanny, unlike you, the incompetent, bumbling idiot'." But he warned that the wealth of advice available, from Miss Frost and others including the no-nonsense author Gina Ford, risked demoralising parents.
Professor Furedi, author of Paranoid Parenting and the Culture of Fear, went on to accuse Labour of politicising parenting!!!
Read more at.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=456765&in_page_id=1770
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