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."
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This touches on a major.problem in life today. Too many kids are running wild and out of.control. we aren’t allowed to.discipline children as previous generations were disciplined. You aren’t allowed to spank your children . God help you if you physically touch someone else’s child in discipline, as in today’s world, you yourself can be charged with assault and battery.
We don’t allow corporal punishment in schools anymore. God help any school employee who.physically touches a child to administer discipline.
This is a major problem in that too many people just don’t raise their children properly anymore. And don’t get support from the society and schools in such efforts anymore.
I'm sure she doesn't mean freeper parents. More like the parents where I live, on the Upper West Side of NYC. And not all of them, either. Sometimes I feel like applauding, but I don't want to interfere even slightly in a good thing. As when a mother yanked both her sons right out of Starbux when they started fighting over something. Before they could get their hot chocolate or whatever! Unheard of!
Maybe govt ought to stop enabling destructive behaviors like illegitimacy and fatherless homes.
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!
So easy for fathers to abandon and go walkabout....for couples to break. The government forces the tribe to pay the price of the dissolution. Intended consequences for the shrewd, and unforseen negative ones for the useful idiots.
And obozo doesn’t need any more ideas on how to interfere in the lives of citizens....Shut up Cameron! Boy! Is that idea ever going to serve as a distraction from the real problems in the UK.
Is everyone ready for the lecture tonight? THAT will be more about what we are doing wrong, how we need to embrace/love muslims than anything about the STATE OF THE UNION. ISLAM has nothing to do with terrorism yadda yadda yadda! Count on one thing - it WILL BE A LECTURE!
If we’re lucky, it will take all his time just introducing the GUESTS and he won’t have time to lecture us.
All in all, he’s just another d—k at the mall...
Act will affect every family with children (Scotland “Named Person Act”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3381988/posts
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the concept of a government watchdog for each child comes from the philosophy of the United Nations.
That’s what spanking is for.
No democracy in history has achieved that. That's why they have all eventually collapsed into tyranny.
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