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WHY ARE WE NOT RASINIG OUR CHILDREN?

Posted by Siobhan on Saturday, 14 October 2006 21:41:58

In school you are encouraged to conform and to live up to expectations. With those pressures placed on a young person, why is it unforseeable that they will rebel and fail at school?

Schools are called upon to provide an ever increasing amount of social education: sex education, drug awareness, realtionship advice... the list goes on. Surely provinding this information is a PARENT'S job?

I am going to be sending my child to school knowing the basics in maths, english, history and science. He will know not to wonder off, not to take anything from strangers and i will equipt him the social skills he needs to function in society, as well as the confidence to be a creative, free thinking, determined individual.

I know i am going to do all this becasue i am his mother and that is my job.

I enplore everybody reading this to do the same.

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Posted by Colleen on Sunday, 15 October 2006 00:24:05

You're right, we as a society need less of the nanny State and more personal responsibility in parenting and all other areas of our lives. I don't believe you're the personification of society's problems, Siobahn, you're doing brilliantly. I hope this doesn't sound patronising, it's not meant be, but you sound very much as I did around 30 years ago when I was a single parent. The sky's the limit for someone with the ambition and energy you have. Go for it! Though don't forget that you and your child need to have fun too :-)

Posted by mary123 on Sunday, 15 October 2006 11:09:20

Amazing how you *know* in advance that you'll be able to do that. I imagine that you are lucky enough to not have to go to work, if you can devote 100% of your time and energy to bringing up your son. I know a lot of parents who would love to be able to do that. Unfortunately, to get the bills paid and keep a roof over their heads, both parents have to go out to work full-time and simply hope that a childminder will bring up their baby adequately.

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