Should we teach parents about how babies develop, not how to be parents?
I love the way Twitter can initiate debate. My lovely friend Laura Henry, a highly experienced Early Years Consultant, sent me this fascinating article discussing the proposals by the Government to instigate parenting classes. In my experience I gave up trying to run formal parenting classes as it proved so difficult to get people to […]
“Parenting classes aren’t just for struggling families” says the Minister for Children and Families
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 […]