Parenting today is better than ever
Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:36:18 GMT
An article in the Guardian discusses study by The Future Foundation the which conludes that parents today are doing a better job than ever.
The Future Foundation thinktank has just published a report telling us that parenting today is better than ever. So it seems that we’ve all been wrong in our doom and gloom about childhood, said the Times. But away are these research findings really that far away from recent concerns about children under pressure?
This is a very interesting finding which gets into the issue of over parenting, which I’ll discuss in a future posting.
Children don’t want their parents breathing down their necks for 99 minutes a day, ramming The Gruffalo’s subtext down their throats and channelling a Lego building session into the foundations for a future career in architecture. They want to be able to look up from their storybook and ask mum what a word means or to make dad laugh (or not) with a joke they heard at school. They want their parents to be around and available when they want them, not pencilled in for formalised doses of parent-child time.
Read the whole article here.
