Posted on 05/06/2015 4:21:59 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
According to a professor at the University of Warwick in England, parents who read to their kids should be thinking about how they’re “unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children” by doing so. In an interview with ABC Radio last week, philosopher and professor Adam Swift said that since “bedtime stories activities . . . do indeed foster and produce . . . [desired] familial relationship goods,” he wouldn’t want to ban them, but that parents who “engage in bedtime-stories activities” should definitely at least feel kinda bad about it sometimes: “I don’t think parents reading their children bedtime stories should constantly have in their minds the way that they are unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children, but I think they should have that thought occasionally,” he said. But Swift also added that some other things parents do to give their kids the best education possible — like sending them to “an elite private school” — “cannot be justified” in this way. “Private schooling cannot be justified by appeal to these familial relationship goods,” he said.
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They’ll need law degrees, remember.
You talk crazy talk.
Same here. Read to them, homeschooled them and they played competitive team sports where they keep score. We also taught them good values. In addition to being kind, generous and gracious, they are smart and competitive. Compared to what's coming out of the public school system, my kids are way ahead already.
Some people are going to be executives/managers and some will be the workers. That's life.
Yea right,let’s all be ignorant failures as parents.
You can always recognize a Leftist by their Zero Sum thought processes.
Providing an advantage to one person does not necessarily create a disadvantage to another person.
In this case there can be no disadvantage to another person’s child by reading to your child because there is no irreplaceable resource expended upon your child by reading your child a bed time story.
Some other child will not have the advantage of bed time stories but that is not a disadvantage it is simply an advantage not realized.
However the story deprived child may ultimately be advantaged by the stories your child enjoys by your child growing up to be a more productive person. More productive people enrich society as a whole. The ‘rising tide lifts all boats’ meme is reality regardless of how it is demeaned by the Left.
I wholeheartedly agree with your post. You make more sense than a gaggle of university professors.
NO Adam Swift, what is truly unfair is the fact that a numb skull like you gets ordained with the title of philosopher and professor.
That’s great!
My goal is the have my kids above average.
Another name for second place is first loser.
This professor isn’t “too swift”, is he?
Or, in the alternative, “he’s for the birds”.
Looks like England has just as many aholes for teachers as we do, which explains why they can’t speak proper English (so that you can understand it), capitulate to the Moslem extremists, and only have one? aircraft carrier for a nation that “ruled the waves”.
Not only has the “Great Lion” lost its’ empire, but also its teeth and its balls. Ah, yes, they are British, cousins of the French. That explains it all.
This sort of thinking is exactly why the West is declining.
Parents who read to their kids arent disadvantaging other kids.
The people who don’t read to their kids are the ones “disadvantaging” them.
So, loving your kids is “goods”. Next they will want to tax it.
Thanks for the compliment but I have an unfair advantage.
Philosophy professors abandoned logic two or three generations ago.
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Downright Swiftian.
I have researched over a dozen educational programs to teach children to read. Some of them are quite costly. People may argue for phonics, whole words, sight words, singing, or other methods. But I have found that the most effective way to teach a child to read is to sit them down in your lap and read to them.
It doesn’t even require a parent to do it; a grandparent can do it as well.
I am expecting a granddaughter in about three weeks. I already have her bookcase stocked.
I would say this has to be a joke, but I know parents who went to their son’s teacher to ask why he wasn’t given his spelling words to study before the tests. The boy was not doing well on the tests, naturally. The teacher told them it wasn’t fair that some kids had parents who would help them study the spelling words. Shortly after this, these parents decided to homeschool.
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