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Parents under pressure are spoiling children
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
6 October 2008
Children are being spoilt because of the increasing pressure on parents to be perfect, researchers from Newcastle University have claimed.
Speaking ahead of a debate held on Monday evening at Newcastle's fortnightly Café Culture event, educational psychologist Liz Todd and her colleague Dr Joel Yoeli said that parents were having more demands placed upon them than ever before, causing many parents to feel inadequate when caring for their children. Dr Yoeli said, 'Today's children, rather than being emotionally deprived, are often actually over-indulged, where both parents and children care too much.' The researchers also raised concerns that Government-funded parenting classes...
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