Ofsted Call For Checklist To Be Issued To All Parents.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2596531/The-10-skills-child-time-start-school-including-toilet-trained-talking-sentences-Ofsted-call-checklist-issued-parents.html

I don't know about more school; places for 2 year olds, perhaps a better idea would be to send parents to child care classes.

[smoneybags]

It ought to be the skills they should have, not must have. Some children will not achieve them!

[emmie]

perhaps it would, some i have come across seem completely unable to cope, their children run wild, have no manners, are largely illiterate, in a country that supposedly prides itself on it education system, if parents don't help their children, then they have a poor start in life.

[B00]

For once AOG, I totally agree with you.

Whilst I accept toilet training can take some time, the other things on the checklist are basic human teachings, and I find it incredibly sad that for whatever reason some children are not shown/taught these in a home environment.

[Svejk]

i suppose sterilising the parents is a step too far?

[emmie]

rather think so ^^

[anotheoldgit]

Svejk

/// i suppose sterilising the parents is a step too far? ///

We all have to pass a test before we are allowed to drive, perhaps there should be a test on parenting skills before one is allowed to have children, if one is caught having children without a licence then one faces a heavy fine or even jail.

Only a suggestion not to be taken seriously.

[youngmafbog]

What do expect from a selfish self centered, self obsessed generation. I foresaw this many years ago so it is no surprise.

You see it all the time, mothers walking with a load of very small toddlers just typing continually into a phone whilst traffic go by feet away.

But then again, for these people there are plenty more where they came for. I actually know a couple in the East Midlands who had no qualms about admitting their 9 kids were to simply get more money out the State.

You cannot change this short of laws many on this site would find deplorable so you just have to learn to live with it as best as possible.

[emmie]

we don't want the kind of state like China or Korea come to think of it,
as to licence to have children, not really, however it would be useful for all secondary school children to have classes in home economics, and indeed
classes on parental care, it doesn't have to be draconian, part and parcel of growing up, after all most will be parents some day, and it doesn't come with an instruction manual.

[ummmm]

I can only imagine that the parents that aren't actually teaching their children are the products of bad parents themselves.

[naomi24]

Waste of time and money.

[zebo]

Those are skills that every child should have before starting school, they're basic things, no-one should have to change your child's nappy because you've been too idle to potty train them. If a child starts school not potty trained then the parent should be available all day to come in and deal with their child's nappy. There will always be genuine accidents or medical reasons but I'm talking about lazy parents.

[cassa333]

Toilet training is only the tip of the ice burge.

Being able to sit at a table (legs down and not crossed or under them)

To be able to eat lunch in under one hour.

To be able to sit at a table and eat (rather than grazing or sitting in front of the telly)

To be able to eat a meal with a knife and fork OR at the very least know how to hold them.

To recongnise and know the difference between real fruit and sweets.

[DaisyNonna]

Are citizenship classes still on the syllabus? If so ditch them (pointless and boring) and replace with parenting classes.

[ummmm]

Daisy - yes they are.

I think it's hard to comprehend for most parents where parenting came naturally.

[emmie]

parenting doesn't come naturally, i believe it comes down the generations, my mother was a good mum, her mother wasn't overly, but her mother my mums gran was, i would say that cooking skills that were once passed down, seem to have been largely lost, as has the ability to teach children right from wrong. Travelling on a bus recently i observed a couple who let their children run up and down, which isn't helpful to the children nor other passengers. If they had been hurt who would be to blame, the parents seemed oblivious to the dangers.

[ummmm]

So what about all the good parents that had really bad upbringings? I know a few.