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A decade of parenting has left working mothers feeling guilty and tired
Source: The Telegraph >> Read Full Article and Comment
Mothers and fathers have never felt more under fire, says Marianne Kavanagh.
The heat is on: Jamie Oliver serves up a healthy school dinner Photo: ANDY BUTTERTON/PAParents are in the spotlight. We have never been so targeted nor so confused. This, after all, has been the decade of huge amounts of legislation based on the idea that good parenting is crucial to children’s wellbeing. Layered on top of all the official advice, like the icing on the cake, has been all the expert instruction in books, magazines, websites and television programmes such asSupernanny. Parenting is a tough job, we’re told, and we need to be educated in how to do it. (Quite soon, like nurses, we’ll need a degree before we start.)
To some extent, we’re our own worst enemies. Few of us listen to those likeTom Hodgkinson, Weekend columnist and author of The Idle Parent, who urges us to relax. We’re an anxious generation of parents who have had smallerfamilies later in life and we focus all our attention on trying to keep our precious few offspring safe. Frank Furedi pointed out our obsession with risk in his book Paranoid Parenting in 2001 and as the decade progressed we continued to mull over all possible dangers, from food additives to abduction.Technology has been a particular parental headache: not only do we worry about … Continue Reading
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