CHOIRBOY Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 The state of childhood is one of the recurring topics of our times Our children and young people live in an era of rapid change which poses particular challenges for there growth and well-being. there can be no doubt that whilst incomes in the UK have doubled in the last 50 years reseatrch shows that the well-being of children in the UK is rated among the worst in Europe. Conbsider the following questions 1. What are the conditions for a good childhood? 2. What obstacles exist to those conditions? 3. What changes could be made that be likely to improve childhood? I am sure Forum members will have some opinions and suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titian Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 You might want to become a member of this: http://www.allianceforchildhood.net/ And you may be interested in this: http://www.steinerwaldorf.org/ A good book on the subject too: http://www.suepalmer.co.uk/toxic.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 All a child needs is to feel loved and secure in a happy and stable home environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teeny Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 and i have to add to that , a child needs protection. i didn't have alot of that when i was growing up and i would have loved to have felt secure in knowing i was protected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxon51 Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Time, Patience, Love, Understanding, Discipline, Safe environment, Recognised boundaries, and bags of being talked to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purdyamos Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Time, Patience, Love, Understanding, Discipline, Safe environment, Recognised boundaries, and bags of being talked to. Will you be my dad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOIRBOY Posted October 8, 2006 Author Share Posted October 8, 2006 All a child needs is to feel loved and secure in a happy and stable home environment. Thanks for your reply I agree with you butr how can we ensure that all children get this and what can we do when things go wrong, Do you think that parenting should be part of the scholl curriculum in secondary school ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Thanks for your reply I agree with you butr how can we ensure that all children get this and what can we do when things go wrong, Do you think that parenting should be part of the scholl curriculum in secondary school ? You can't ensure that all children get this, short of checking the potential parents' suitability for child-rearing before conception... I really don't think that placing parenting skills on the school curriculum would make a significant difference to the quality of some children's ubringing. Some skills can be learned, but the happy and stable home environment I referred to is more to do with the relationship the parents have with eachother than any learned abilities. Providing love, security and stability are inherent qualities which I don't think can be learned, or applied to mask a crumbling partnership/marraige. It's the overall atmosphere of the home which is important, something which can't be faked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 8< snip------------- Providing love, security and stability are inherent qualities which I don't think can be learned, or applied to mask a crumbling partnership/marraige. It's the overall atmosphere of the home which is important, something which can't be faked. That's all very true of course BUT - there are now so many villains out to undermine the best intentions of good parents and the worst of them will be flogging their unremitting subversion on TV until well after Christmas. The secular, liberal, capitalist, market orientated society we're now blessed with has little room for children, - unless they can persuade their parents to buy them lots and lots of things. Many homes these days barely have time for any kind of atmoshere except for one of continual desperation. Too much work required just to keep a roof over your head to be able to afford time for play. Too much peer pressure at school to have the latest gizmo/gadget and designer gear. Too much pressure for academic achievement at the expense of character development. Too many children deprived of one of their parents because sepration/divorce has become a lifestyle !! I could go on....lots of children these days are sufering from acute depession before they even have to face the responsibilities of adulthood. I'm just very grateful I was born in the forties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 ...Many homes these days barely have time for any kind of atmoshere except for one of continual desperation. Too much work required just to keep a roof over your head to be able to afford time for play. Too much peer pressure at school to have the latest gizmo/gadget and designer gear. Too much pressure for academic achievement at the expense of character development. ... You make several excellent points there, but - no matter how troublesome - they're still essentially superficial concerns. I'm talking about the fundementals; the factors which provide a solid basis for a happy, self-confident, secure child even before the child can walk and talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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