Helen thought this article in the Guardian was interesting:
Sidelined, overlooked, squeezed out ... the mothers of young children are more discriminated against than any one else in the workplace, according to a new report. Madeleine Bunting on how British women are forced to choose between children and a career.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gender/story/0,,2023776,00.html
Thursday 1 March 2007
Tuesday 21 November 2006
Jamie Oliver discussion readings
The ‘school meals revolution’: a dog’s dinner by Rob Lyons
Stop bullying fat kids by Michael Fitzpatrick
Stop bullying fat kids by Michael Fitzpatrick
What we are
Parents who can think for themselves.
Parents who want to bring up their children without being lectured to.
Parents who want their children’s horizons broadened, not narrowed.
Parents who are fed up of being treated like children.
If you feel this sounds like you and you would like an opportunity to discuss parenting issues the Parents forum is holding a series of discussions.
The next discussion is on the Jamie Oliver phenomenon, held in Central London. For further details contact parenting@instituteofideas.com
Parents who want to bring up their children without being lectured to.
Parents who want their children’s horizons broadened, not narrowed.
Parents who are fed up of being treated like children.
If you feel this sounds like you and you would like an opportunity to discuss parenting issues the Parents forum is holding a series of discussions.
The next discussion is on the Jamie Oliver phenomenon, held in Central London. For further details contact parenting@instituteofideas.com
Tuesday 14 November 2006
The nursery rhyme police
From today's Daily Mail:
Parents could be forced to go to special classes to learn to sing their children nursery rhymes, a minister said.
Those who fail to read stories or sing to their youngsters threaten their children's future and the state must put them right, Children's Minister Beverley Hughes said.
Their children's well-being is at risk 'unless we act', she declared.
And Mrs Hughes said the state would train a new 'parenting workforce' to ensure parents who fail to do their duty with nursery rhymes are found and 'supported'.
The call for state intervention in the minute details of family life followed a series of Labour efforts to reduce anti-social behaviour and improve educational standards by imposing rigorous controls on the lives of the youngest children.
The nursery rhyme police, Daily Mail, 14 November 2006
Parents could be forced to go to special classes to learn to sing their children nursery rhymes, a minister said.
Those who fail to read stories or sing to their youngsters threaten their children's future and the state must put them right, Children's Minister Beverley Hughes said.
Their children's well-being is at risk 'unless we act', she declared.
And Mrs Hughes said the state would train a new 'parenting workforce' to ensure parents who fail to do their duty with nursery rhymes are found and 'supported'.
The call for state intervention in the minute details of family life followed a series of Labour efforts to reduce anti-social behaviour and improve educational standards by imposing rigorous controls on the lives of the youngest children.
The nursery rhyme police, Daily Mail, 14 November 2006
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