Blair's Nanny State
Edward John Smith wrote:
Government ministers assume that most parents are too stupid and in
some cases too slothful to know how to bring up their children.
Last week, the children's minister Beverley Hughes helpfully reminded
the nation's mums and dads that they ought to sing nursery rhymes to
their baby. Yesterday, Tony Blair told us he is to spend £4m creating
a network of experts and super-nannies to save children from their
parents.
Many commentators have criticised the arrogant assumptions that promote
the invasion of family life by these experts. But the question that
needs to be asked is: experts in what? Certainly not in parenting.
I seem to recall Blairs child being picked up from the pavement by the
Police blind drunk and unable to stand.
That's why it is clear that the supper nannies are badly needed.
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