This week's award winner is the father of a 16 year-old girl, the daughter having just appeared in court charged with burglary during last week's riots. The girl is alleged to have looted a £500 iPad from a shop on Camden High Street. Her father, a documentary cameraman, is reported in the Sunday Telegraph as saying:
'This is the end product of a society that tells you that you cannot discipline your children.Schools eroding discipline? "No shit, Sherlock"
"What do you do when you have a seven-year-old coming home saying 'you can't smack me or shout at me'? That's what they're being told in the schools."
what the cameraman says is an abdication of responsibility - bringing up children isn't about having the 'legal' right to hit or shout abuse or not. methinks he doth protest too much and displays some kind of inverted 'victim' culture. I couldn't hit my kids, so now see what they do - not my fault, in fact I am a victim of shame as a result blah blah blah.
ReplyDeleteI wonder, does 'supernanny' hit those kids on the naughty step (off camera of course!) We need to know. Sorry to dis this award on this occasion - agree with all in the past.