Posted on 01/12/2016 6:47:04 AM PST by reaganaut1
The prime minister will call for a revolution in child rearing this weekend by suggesting that all parents should attend classes on how to discipline their children.
In a move likely to enrage those fearful of an encroaching "nanny state", David Cameron will say that it should be the norm for parents to receive instruction on how to behave around their offspring.
As part of a speech on the family, Cameron will announce plans for a parenting classes voucher scheme, claiming that all parents need help and that there is too little state-sponsored guidance on offer.
"In the end, getting parenting and the early years right isn't just about the hardest-to-reach families; it's about everyone," Cameron is expected to say on Monday. "We all have to work at it. And if you don't have a strong support network - if you don't know other mums or dads – having your first child can be enormously isolating.
"Of course they don't come with a manual, but is it right that all of us get so little guidance? We've made progress. We've dramatically expanded the number of health visitors, and that is crucial. But that just deals with one part of parenting - the first few weeks and months. What about later on, when it comes to play, communication, behaviour and discipline? We all need more help with this - the most important job we'll ever have. So I believe we now need to think about how to make it normal - even aspirational - to attend parenting classes."
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Hey, Cameron, leave those parents alone!
Government should not have interfered w parents and schools ability to discipline.
And in Islamic nations they teach men how to control women.
So. I’m guessing he’ll release some kind of statement soon that his admonition certainly didn’t refer to Muslim invaders in his country. Only to those racist Homeland Brits who raise Christian children who don’t comply with subjugation by Muslims.
Oh yeah the gubmint can do a much better job on anything. Gawd we are doomed...so long Europe we will go down the drain soon enough ourselves.
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I have that mastered, David. Please tell us adults how to control petulant politicians.
Well, now I’m confused.
We’ve been told for years that parenting was passe and that government schools would undertake the task of socializing and educating children.
I wonder what Chesterton would say.
You can’t spank anymore, so...
What the hell is going on in England that theyt need instructions on something that’s been done since the beginning of time?
Postmodernism.
People learn how to be parents ( or not be parents) from their own parents and their parents before them
govt bureaucrats know how to raise kids like fish know how to ride bicycles
Maybe govt ought to stop enabling destructive behaviors like illegitimacy and fatherless homes
Make parents legally liable for the behaviors that cause loss or injury until they are age 18.
Oh wait, never mind. It’s already mostly true.
Families need to police the family or they all go down.
True that. The kids can basically tell the parents to go to hell and we can’t do much. We will be accused of mental abuse if we even try to take away their I pads. Sheesh.
Citizens should be taught to properly control their elected representatives first.
Actually the first kid trains the parents for the next kids.
As a point of discussion, consider that many young parents these days may have little personal knowledge of how discipline should work - they may have never received any effective discipline while growing up.
The idea of offering such instruction is not repugnant. But to make it mandatory, and to make it government administered are absolutely unacceptable.
Now, being that this is in the UK, also consider that a major source of issues happens to come from adherents of a certain religion whose standards for behavior are somewhat askew from western civilized behavior.
1. Attack Christian child-rearing that treats children as if they need instruction in God’s ways, direction in life and discipline. Say that children pretty much know the right way themselves and just need their parents to listen to them.
2. Introduce ever-more antichristian entertainment.
3. Put the government in charge of “teaching parents how to parent” when the consequences of 1 and 2 start to show up, but only for the sake of secular humanists obtaining dictorial control over people’s lives, justified as “for the sake of the children.” Secular humanists who never stop howling about children encountering the mere subliminal suggestion of God in school will be all for this plan despite its obvious trampling on individual rights because “it’s needed.”
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