I love my iPad but are you using them as electric babysitters? It seems that some toddlers play with iPads nearly half of their waking day and this is leading to withdrawal tantrums of an extreme kind! As a former Deputy Head I also worry about their ability to concentrate on any one task – […]
I’m on the JVS Show on BBC Three Counties talking about this controversial subject now. What do you think? “Parents taking infants on long flights are turning to medication to help their children sleep. But is the practice safe – or a dangerous abuse of parental power? On a recent afternoon flight from Miami to […]
I am being interviewed tonight on http://www.talkradioeurope.com/ discussing this news article. As you know, I have been invited to the House of Commons in December to join a panel to discuss the way forward after The Riots in England Problem families face daily visits from officials By Robert Winnett, Deputy Political Editor “More than 100,000 problem […]
I’m talking on London’s largest radio station today about the Government’s new idea for free parenting classes. Join me here on LBC I am greatly in favour of taking away the taboo about parenting classes – we go on courses on everything from marketing to management yet we receive literally no skills training for the […]
Four years ago I read the UNICEF report on why children in the UK were so unhappy, so un-cherished and so un -nurtured. I was so incensed by the Report the last time, that I stayed up until 2.30 am to record a video called “A Nation Of Bad Parents” trying to be part of […]
