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home about us contact us parents’ forum news archive RSS feed Themes crime and antisocial behaviour childcare and working mums outdoor play and independence community grandparents and ageing drink and drugs disability eco-parenting consumerism teenage sex and pregnancy new media fertility treatment health, and safety fatherhood marriage and family love, friendship and intimacy food and feeding mental health pregnancy and birth parenting culture education sport and leisure politics and policy recession and economy child abuse and abduction vetting vaccination child protection policy youth culture		21 July 2010 Big Society: there’s more to politics than the PTA There are some good instincts behind the Lib-Cons' BS agenda. But it risks reducing politics to the level of community cakebaking. By Jennie Bristow. Read on... Parenting news Summer camp plan for every teenager The Times (London), 22 July 2010 Hundreds of thousands of 16-year-olds are to be sent on summer camps at a cost to the taxpayer of up to £1,400 a head under an ambitious national citizen service to be launched by David Cameron today. Swedish-style free schools may increase social divide - study Guardian, 21 July 2010 Ed Balls fears plan will create 'form of social apartheid' and undermine local authorities. Featured articles All Joy and No Fun New York Magazine, 4 July 2010 Why parents hate parenting. By Jennifer Senior. ‘For trusting my daughter, I was treated as a criminal’ spiked, 13 May 2010 What’s the punishment for leaving your kids in a shopping mall for one hour? For one mum, it was probation, parenting classes, and shame. By Nancy McDermott. How free should children roam? Sunday Times, 11 July 2010 Relaxed or just plain lax? Free-range children may seem the perfect way to parent but it can meet with huge criticism. By Margarette Driscoll. The baby blues that won’t go away The Times (London), 10 July 2010 Americans are calling it ‘parental dissatisfaction’. But mums and dads are being told to stop their whinging and be thankful. By Viv Groskop. Featured book Standing up to Supernanny Societas (2009) The current obsession with perfect parenting increases our insecurity and distrust of each other, and diminishes our authority over our kids. In this new book, Jennie Bristow asks: Why have we invited Supernanny into our living rooms - and how can we kick her out? Licensed to Hug Civitas (2008) Frank Furedi and Jennie Bristow argue that the dramatic escalation of child protection measures such as the national vetting scheme has succeeded in poisoning the relationship between the generations, creating an atmosphere of suspicion that increases the risks to children. Stay-at-home mothers: ‘We don’t care about having it all’ The Times (London), 10 July 2010 They’re young, smart, educated – and all they want is to stay at home and have babies. Meet the women for whom caring matters more than a career. By Sarah Harris. Shoesmith speaks out over treatment in media Children & Young People Now, 7 July 2010 Sharon Shoesmith, former director of children's services at Haringey Council, has spoken out for the first time to denounce the way she was demonised in the media following the death of Baby Peter. Funding for Change4Life campaign to be cut Children & Young People Now, 7 July 2010 The government has announced plans to withdraw funding from Change4Life, the national campaign to tackle obesity among children and families. Free our streets from the fretting of the nanny state London Evening Standard, 6 July 2010 A couple are reprimanded for letting their children cycle to school alone: their common sense should prevail. By Simon Jenkins. See all news items >>		Jennie Bristow’s Guide to Subversive Parenting Featured articles Interesting journal articles Relevant policy documents Events Books worth reading Reports and pamphlets Links