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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 generations 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		4 January 2012 A fresh-faced look at growing old In Never Say Die, Susan Jacoby elbows aside old prejudices about ageing and the ‘illderly’ and asks instead how society can sensibly cope with having lots of older people. Review by Jennie Bristow. Read on... Parenting news Lib Dems announce free parenting classes Sunday Times, 18 September 2011 Free parenting classes are to be offered to all families with children under the age of five in a new scheme announced at the Lib Dem conference. Come back ‘Superwoman’: the lost ideal of combining motherhood and work Guardian, 17 September 2011 The ideal of the 'Superwoman' juggling motherhood and work has been scotched. Now the pressure on women is to be perfect carers, with careers like a dirty secret. By Zoe Williams. Featured articles The ‘Foundation Years’: For a New Generation of Mini-Camerons? Huffington Post, 20 July 2011 The Con-Lib Coalition has announced its own version of the toddlers' curriculum - with teeth. For years, mothers who don’t want to breast feed have been demonised. Daily Mail, 10 February 2011 But startling new evidence may be about to vindicate them. Why parents shouldn’t feel guilty if they can’t devote time to their toddlers The Observer, 11 September 2011 Critics are rejecting the theory that children need close attention in their first three years, dismissing neuroscience as 'neurotrash'. By Viv Groskop. The London riots were not a product of permissiveness spiked, 30 August 2011 Blaming the looting on the ‘liberal experiment’ of the 1960s is not only wrong - it could also make the real problems in urban communities worse. By Jennie Bristow. 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 (2010) 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. Health and safety ‘excuse’ for unpopular decisions BBC News Online, 24 August 2011 Councils and companies are using health and safety rules as an excuse to make "unpopular decisions" banning low-risk activities, a watchdog says. Cameron’s cure will make society sicker spiked, 23 August 2011 The PM's post-riots promise of more intervention into troubled families is mad – it is precisely such intervention that devastated parental authority. Dr Spock’s Baby and Child Care at 65 BBC News Online, 23 August 2011 Sixty-five years since its first publication, Louise Hidalgo asks, what is Dr Spock's contribution to child-rearing 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