I'm speechless

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The Nursery Rhyme Police

This shows how slanted the writing in the Daily Mail is. Mind you, I feel what is the point in everyone being aspirational?

Even those who did have aspirations at school end up being fairly poor in today's society unless you have inherited money to buy a house.

Hallgerda - you're right!

(Best NOT ask them to do Jack & Jill - you all know the original meaning of that particular nursery rhyme)

calig - isn't that the catch 22 - if you recognise you may be failing as a parent - your probably not - so the target audience has to be forced via court order - by which time its too late.

Yeah agree with that Uwila, i think they're not spending enough on this sort of thing. This will probably on its own not make any big difference, but it's a start and might possibly act as a sort of pilot so that if they ever did decide to spend serious money on it, they'd have a few learnings.

The same sort of criticism was made of the sure-start scheme, which apparantly has been really successful where it's up and running.

There's going to be no "force" involved. Simply the opportunity to get advice. so it says here . The compulsory parenting classes will be for parents of children who have gone off the rails.
The newspaper has muddled up two separate pieces of news. It had to happen.

Yes Custardo I agree. I think that's why they need to spend more money on providing parenting courses in every neighbourhood so that it's normalised. Possibly they could offer parents a course once a year or something, along with the vaccinations and the health check ups. But it would cost a lot of money up front (hopefully recoupable when those kids hit teens)

well I often feel like I need help and advice in bringing up my two.Plus I frequently feel like a crap parent.

And what on earth is ANYONE doing reading the Daily Male ( spelling error intentional) ?????

What a marvellous idea!

I know of 2 highly educated women that did not have a clue. One said why talk to babies when they can't talk and that she felt stupid talking to her son. Another was gobsmacked I gave her 18 month old a book as we had read it together (i was looking after child for a few hours) and he loved it. These are both woman with fab jobs, homes and partners!

Parenting skills used to be handed down mother to mother but due to families moving further apart, those skills are not passed down.

The supernanny already exists in some places. They come in with fresh eyes and new stratergies. Some people are so scared of doing the wrong thing and letting children cry or saying no, the kids are running riot. I overheard a woman today talking about lack of sleep. Thinking she was discussing a baby. She went on about how he wouldn't sleep in his own bed and would fall asleep on sofa, then join her at her bedtime. She was talking about a 5 year old!!!!! Many don't have clue.

A friend of mine is having trouble with her teen. He rampages in rage. Breaks things, hits both his parents. She is going to a parenting course and they are giving her permission to treat him differently with startling results.

We need to go back to basics and re learn how to parent (I'm not talking beating with a belt) but to say no to these kids sometimes