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Analysis: Don't ask the experts
Nursery World,
2 April 2008
Is all the advice that today's parents are bombarded with just creating a vicious circle, by making them feel less confident than ever? Gayle Goshorn looks at how early years workers can break it.
Parents know their child best, right? Wrong, to look at the growth industry that is parenting advice. Every newspaper has its parents' page and resident expert; reality TV shows such as 'Supernanny' turn family dysfunction into 'infotainment'; the Government has launched an academy of 'parenting practitioners', and decreed how many each local council must have in place. At universities, academics specialise in analysing the whole trend....
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