Parents Wrap Children in Cotton Wool
Interesting and irritating to read the Director of Play England criticising parents for being over protective of children perhaps he should read the news more closely, it is schools who have banned conkers as they have stopped many of the playground games we remember. Is it schools carrying the health and safety policy to far or is local education authorities who put out these edicts. In the last few weeks of term we heard about sports days not allowing the egg and spoon race or the sack rack as they were to dangerous. I agree many children are not allowed the freedom of the past could this be because we have housed them in high rise flats or new houses with tiny garden if any, is it because drug addicts and teenage gangs many with knives are allowed to roam the streets and play areas and if only there were trees left in many places for children to climb. It is always so easy to blame parents and to carry out a survey which can produce the desired answers, of course in the survey only 19% of parents thought they were to blame, I am surprised it was even that many.
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Okay so why does no one ever resign when they make such a mess I would have to in my job. My child was so stressed over the testing time , I am very cross
Leave some open spaces for them to play in, local councils and government need to stop building on green field and playground.
Dear Margaret
I am currently working on a BBC4 documentary series called WOMEN. As you’ll see below, I am hoping to get in touch with mothers who work full-time as primary school teachers.
WOMEN is a three-part documentary series for BBC4 about feminism and its impact on contemporary women’s lives. The second episode will examine the lives of mothers today and explore the ways in which family life has been transformed. This film will feature six or seven mothers and their families, and will include working mothers and full-time mothers.
We are particularly interested in hearing from mothers working full-time as primary school teachers and I would therefore be very grateful if you are able to put me in touch with anyone you know that might fit the bill. They would need to be a mother living within a family set up, i.e. not a single mother, and with their children living at home (i.e. children under 16 years old). It would also be preferable if they lived in the London and SE area.
Although we aren’t looking to start filming until September/October time, we are working to quite a tight deadline with this as we are hoping to have fiinalised all our contributors by the end of August.
I look forward to hearing from you if you are able to assist.
Thanks and kind regards
Becky Lomax
Assistant Producer
Women – 3 x 60 mins, BBC4
E: becky.lomax@bbc.co.uk
I perfer to stay with my children and not risk the dangerous streets all I read is yet another teenager murdered
I think i heard you speak a number of years ago about the importance of parents being aware of the inappropiate sites that chidren could access on the internet. We’ve since found with the wicked things that happen on chatrooms etc how valid those concerns were. Thats what most parents want govets and local authorities to think about. But i suppose whilst there are greedy people who want to sue for every little accident it makes everybodies job more difficult.
As parents we are ‘caught between a rock and a hard place’ as the Americans’ say.
Our little girl is not yet of an age to be allowed to go or do anything by herself, but when she reaches this age I worry about what to do.
I grow up in the seventies and back then by the time you were eight or nine you took yourself off to school, all my friends did too. Anyone who was still turning up with Mum was regarded as a bit of a softy.
I also have two older brothers who used to camp out in the back garden during the summer, Mum leaving the back door unlocked in case they needed the loo in the night.
These days I wouldn’t dream of doing either with my little girl.
I won’t to give her some independence and we don’t beleave in wraping her in cotton wool, but the streets are just too dangerous now.
I have lived in the same area of the same town all my life adn it used to be a safe familiar little town, but now….
Last year a 14 year old girl was ganged raped at 8 o’clock on a summers evening not 5 minutes walk from were we live. In other words in broad daylight, and out in the open. Her attackers were ‘children’ her own age!
What do I do tell my daughter at 14 she can’t pop round the corner to go a friend’s house in broad-daylight?
The problem, is the paedophiles roaming the streets. If justice was served on them, then parents wouldn’t have to keep such a close eye on their children.
The more mums and kids there are out there on the streets walking back and forward to school or to the park etc , the less room there is for criminals and low life!!
Yes Sue – brilliant – parents being out there would protect the students from criminals and even from bullies.
As far as social interactions go I would absolutely hate being a student right now – I far preferred my own time when school was a joy – I actually felt badly when it was time to leave.
This overreaction is commonplace in today’s society. The ‘human rights’ of one person overlook the ‘human rights’ of a group on a daily basis: poor behaviour in school to benefit fraud.
Born 1930 in Northwood Mdx. Schooled in Watford. A 2 parent family with 3 boys & 2 girls. Despite WW2, we all had a wonderful unfettered family life, camping out in the garden and nearby woods, swimming in the Ruislip Lido reservoir, the Rickmansworth Aquadrome (a flooded quary, over 50ft deep, both now banned by Elf & Safety), in the River Colne and Grand Union canal, ice skating on ponds and lakes (our sports Master at High School, used to flood part of the play ground on frosty nights, to give us ice to slid on next day! The only one to get seriously hurt was a master, showing off, who fell and cracked his wrist!).Also climbing and building tree houses in an Oak 25ft above ground. Roaming the countryside, on foot or bicycle, alone or with friends to visit friendly farmers who would make us take our shoes off. NO, not so we did not make his house dirty. So we did not get our shoes muddy!, we walked barefoot in the yard, stys, stables etc. amongst all the farm birds and animals and their various droppings! Then went to the Colne, stripped off and swam where the Cows and Horses were drinking etc. to get clean. Our HOME was never “sanitised”, just vucuumed, washed or polished (mostly by us kids doing our daily chors). Did we ever get sick? Yes from the usual kids unavoidable illnesses of those days, Mumps, Measels, Tonsilitis, Colds or Flu etc, but because of our exposure from birth, to bacteria, bugs, stings, cuts and bruises, none serious, our natural immune systems were strong and we all recovered quickly, without the aid of anti-biotics, nor were we left with any after affects. Phobias and alergies were almost unheard of.
My 3 healthy daughters (so much for the old wive’s tale about Mumps) were brought up the same way, are beautiful (at least I think so) and have given me 4 lovely grandchildren. I now fear for the future of these 4, living in this now sterile, restricted, fearfull enviroment, where they are not allowed to play, learn to cope with risks, or freely explore their surroundings. – So much for progress and the ever increasing “Authorities” who do nothing to reverse this tragic trend.
Quo Vadis – England!
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