To Whom It May Concern

To Whom It May Concern

You’re a fool if you think that I’m scared of you, kid! I’ve dealt with scores of naughty kids like you before. As a grown up and enlightened person, it’s my duty to help you grow. However, if you continued to mess up with me, you’ll be on my Black List. I’ll also inform my friend Barack Obama to issue a Red Corner Notice against you and prevent you from entering his country. Go fly a kite, kid!

Are we over-protecting children?

 

A  new report out today claims that over-protecting children stops them developing the skills and resilience they need to protect themselves. Do you agree? The report “No Fear” explores a number of key areas including children’s play, anti-social behaviour, adult vetting and fear of strangers, identifying the ways in which our preoccupation with eliminating risk is restricting children’s freedoms and corroding their relationships with adults.

“Although there is a widely held view that children grow up faster today, in fact their lives are far more controlled than they were 30 years ago,” says former government adviser and author of the report, Tim Gill.

DIVAS says:

People, while trying to make their offsprings perfect, are messing with nature’s mechanism of growth.

Children should be allowed to tread an unknown path; if parents really care for their kids grow out of fear.

They should be allowed to do things own their own; even if they may hurt themselves while doing so – that’s the only way how an organism learns in nature.

And there are no 100% safe practises even if one wished for.

One Response to “Are we over-protecting children?”

cyberpunk, on November 18th, 2007 at 3:29 pm Said:

I agree with this. I think parents are overprotecting kids nowadays.

We grew up with less “protection” from things and other people, but we did ok (fine, I’m not a good example, but you get my drift)…

Kids need to learn and think for themselves.

Is it right to smack children?

 

A complete ban on smacking has been rejected by British ministers, after a review suggested most parents opposed it.Laws on smacking in England and Wales were tightened in 2004 to stop parents and carers who assaulted children using “reasonable punishment” as a defence.

But children’s minister Kevin Brennan said laws would not be changed further, as new rules appeared to be working.(BBC)

DIVAS says:

My pa, now in his sixties and living with us two sons, still can’t understand why we ran away from home simply because he was ‘rough’ in his view for our well-being.

We as teenagers were so much fed up with our parents’ ‘wise’ scoldings that we were ready to anything to leave their house.

Although, in our 30s now, we have understood how their own background was affecting their behavior, and that parenting is really most difficut job, we still think much of sufferings would have been avoided with just a few nice words.