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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 How will Cameron fare? BBC News Online, 24 August 2010 The Camerons were on holiday in Cornwall when Samantha gave birth It may be Mr Cameron's fourth time as a father but it's his first time as prime minister and all eyes will be on him to see how he fares - not least because of his party's political focus on parenting. By Michelle Roberts. What Could Happen to Your Kid in the Car While You Pay For Gas? Free Range Kids, 24 August 2010 Many people have gotten to the point where they really BELIEVE the worst case scenario is very likely to happen in the very next minute to their very child. By Lenore Skenazy. Featured articles 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. All Joy and No Fun New York Magazine, 4 July 2010 Why parents hate parenting. By Jennifer Senior. Sorry Gisele, breast is not always best Guardian, 12 August 2010 Not all mothers feel that breastfeeding 'is the most natural thing in the world'. Women must be allowed to make their own choices. By Lara Williams. Parenting isn’t a bunch of skills that can be taught spiked, 10 August 2010 Frank Field’s proposal to have a GCSE in parenting would denigrate both what it means to be a parent and the purpose of education. By Frank Furedi. 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. The biggest crisis facing Britain? Too many parents don’t have a clue how to raise children Daily Mail, 10 August 2010 By Frank Field. Cutting ContactPoint is the easy part spiked, 9 August 2010 Of course the dismantling of the ‘database state’ should be welcomed, but it’s naive to believe that a new era of freedom will automatically follow. By Tim Black. Breastfeeding should be ‘the law’, says supermodel BBC News, 3 August 2010 Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen says that all mothers should be made to breastfeed their babies for the first six months of their lives. 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. 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