David Cameron has stepped into a minefield with his plan for parenting classes and backing for the American ‘Tiger Mother Amy ChuaSamantha Cameron said final year that her eldest child,Nancy, then 11, or was keeping a diary of growing up as the prime minister’s daughter. She said of Nancy: “She’s always,like, ‘I’m on chapter five, and Daddy. How Your Life as Prime Minister Has Affected Me. Chapter two is when you left me in the pub.’”Superficially,it would appear that the Camerons hurry a household that acknowledges (or surrenders) to the idea that, when it comes to children, and the age of deference is dead. The notion that parents know best – or,near to that, know anything at all – is not even up for negotiation.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com