Parenting news: archive
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.
24 June 2010
Sure Start: a fancy new way to police the family
Sure Start’s main achievement has been to transform the social problem of child poverty into an individual problem of poor parenting. By Jennie Bristow.
30 April 2010
The trouble with family policy
Because it distrusts families and also doubts the ability of the state simply to take over the job of parenting, New Labour has given birth to ‘professionalised parenting’ – with disastrous consequences for family life. By Jennie Bristow.
28 April 2010
Is it OK to leave your baby to cry?
Yes, says Jennie Bristow.
17 April 2010
The ‘Mumsnet election’ doesn’t get my vote
As a mother of young children, I suppose I should feel vaguely excited – if not absurdly flattered – by the looming ‘Mumsnet election’. But the thought of it does as much for me as changing a sloppy, honking nappy.
17 February 2010
The great myth of me-time
Exhausted mothers’ quest for time out is a symptom of our exacting parenting culture. We need to get the balance back into family life. By Jennie Bristow.
3 February 2010
‘We’re afraid of our kids, and we’re afraid for them’
Anthony Horowitz, author of the bestselling teenage spy novels, talks to Jennie Bristow about vetting and the poisoning of adult-child relations.
11 January 2010
It’s not true that children never lie
A provocative new book argues that a combination of suspicion towards adults and officialdom’s belief that children always tell the truth is creating a minefield of abuse accusations in schools. By Jennie Bristow
16 November 2009
There’s more to human character than sharing toys
... and you can't measure a child's moral development by the age of five.
2 November 2009
Don’t Touch! The educational story of a panic
By Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. (Routledge 2008). Review by Jennie Bristow, published in Power and Education, Volume 1, Number 2, 2009
25 October 2009
Why we need a Parents’ Liberation Movement
Everybody these days seems to know best about how to raise children - apart from parents.
6 October 2009
Call me a bad parent, I’ll still let my kids eat cake
Whatever is behind the claims that children of working mums are unhealthy and that sweets turn kids into violent thugs, it's not science. By Jennie Bristow.
25 September 2009
Standing up to Supernanny
Jennie Bristow’s new book examines how contemporary parenting culture and its backlash have set parents apart from their children, apart from non-parents and even fellow-parents. Review by Ann Furedi.
22 September 2009
There’s more to parenthood than egg production
Treating all women as mothers-to-be, who must conform to certain health and behaviour norms, turns us into little more than farmyard hens. By Jennie Bristow.
13 August 2009
This vetting scheme makes strangers of us all
For generations, parents invited other adults to help raise and care for their kids. Now those relationships are being corroded in the name of 'child protection'. By Jennie Bristow.
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