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THE ABC has questioned whether parents should read to their children before bedtime, claiming it could give your kids an “unfair advantage” over less fortunate children.
“Is having a loving family an unfair advantage?” asks a story on the ABC’s website.
“Should parents snuggling up for one last story before lights out be even a little concerned about the advantage they might be conferring?”
The story was followed by a broadcast on the ABC’s Radio National that also tackled the apparently divisive issue of bedtime reading.
“Evidence shows that the difference between those who get bedtime stories and those who don’t — the difference in their life chances — is bigger than the difference between those who get elite private schooling and those that don’t,” British academic Adam Swift told ABC presenter Joe Gelonesi.
Gelonesi responded online: “This devilish twist of evidence surely leads to a further conclusion that perhaps — in the interests of levelling the playing field — bedtime stories should also be restricted.”
Contacted by The Daily Telegraph, Gelonesi said the bedtime stories angle was highlighted by the ABC “as a way of getting attention”.
Asked if it might be just as easy to level the playing field by encouraging other parents to read bedtime stories, Gelonesi said: “We didn’t discuss that.”
Swift said parents should be mindful of the advantage provided by bedtime reading.
“I don’t think parents reading their children bedtime stories should constantly have in their minds the way that they are unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children, but I think they should have that thought occasionally,” he said.Professor Frank Oberklaid, from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute said he was bewildered by the idea.
“It’s one of the more bizarre things I’ve heard,” he said. “We should be bringing all kids up to the next level.”
You are in denial about what the left stands for.
Really?!
We now should consider how our good parenting actions might give our kids an advantage in life while other kids don't have that advantage? We're supposed to feel guilty about that? Maybe we should feel guilty about feeding our children healthy meals and providing them with warm, functional clothing too.
No Cookies | dailytelegraph.com.au
THE ABC has questioned whether parents should read to their children before bedtime, claiming it could give your kids an “unfair advantage” over less fortunate children.
“Is having a loving family an unfair advantage?” asks a story on the ABC’s website.
“Should parents snuggling up for one last story before lights out be even a little concerned about the advantage they might be conferring?”
The story was followed by a broadcast on the ABC’s Radio National that also tackled the apparently divisive issue of bedtime reading.
“Evidence shows that the difference between those who get bedtime stories and those who don’t — the difference in their life chances — is bigger than the difference between those who get elite private schooling and those that don’t,” British academic Adam Swift told ABC presenter Joe Gelonesi.
Gelonesi responded online: “This devilish twist of evidence surely leads to a further conclusion that perhaps — in the interests of levelling the playing field — bedtime stories should also be restricted.”
Contacted by The Daily Telegraph, Gelonesi said the bedtime stories angle was highlighted by the ABC “as a way of getting attention”.
Asked if it might be just as easy to level the playing field by encouraging other parents to read bedtime stories, Gelonesi said: “We didn’t discuss that.”
Swift said parents should be mindful of the advantage provided by bedtime reading.
“I don’t think parents reading their children bedtime stories should constantly have in their minds the way that they are unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children, but I think they should have that thought occasionally,” he said.Professor Frank Oberklaid, from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute said he was bewildered by the idea.
“It’s one of the more bizarre things I’ve heard,” he said. “We should be bringing all kids up to the next level.”
You have to allow parents to engage in bedtime stories activities, in fact we encourage them because those are the kinds of interactions between parents and children that do indeed foster and produce these [desired] familial relationship goods.
Nope, it very very plain that YOU are.
Again...a closed mind cannot be pried open from the outside. You have accepted what you've been fed.
Those on the left dont have the nerve to come out and say it, but its a tenet of leftism. Make everyone "equal" by cutting down anyone who does better.
Oh, for Christ's sake.
Care to add anything more substantive to your reply?
So let me get this straight.
Good parents who take the time to read to their kids when they go to bed should stop, so the lazy, shiftless parents who don't bother, won't have disadvantaged children?
That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time.
It costs nothing to read to your child. You don't even have to buy books. Check them out at the library. Oh, but wait - gosh. Taking your kids to the library probably causes a disadvantage to those kids whose parents are too lazy to do even that.
Man, do I hate this "everybody gets a trophy" society that we've evolved into.
Im not in denial. Im aware because I observe, living in California weve known about much of the crap the left is pushing federally a decade prior. And this after it failing in the state. Books/articles/new reports/research etc. are helpful as well.
Beyond that there is substantial evidence of the failures of leftism throughout the world-the map isn't the territory, and yet you guys remain on the same course.
......Nope, it very very plain that YOU are.
Again...a closed mind cannot be pried open from the outside. You have accepted what you've been fed.
Higher min wage, more jobsHow....?
Higher min wage, more jobs
Number one would be a living wage so they can work 40 hours and be home without too much financial stress. Otherwise I would imagine the list could include any number of things.
I don't have a house cleaner.If you employ another house cleaner on a $20 an hour 40 hour a week wage we would already be on our way to a better world.
How many cleaning ladies do you employ full time at $20 an hour. If you would do that for a girl, she could go home and read to her children.
What really kills me are the same nimrods wailing that you can't force democracy on a country that doesn't want it are trying desperately to force socialism on America, a country built both culturally and physically with a reverence for the individual.
Only leftists could come up with this premise (its unfair!), and as we know the lefty solution is to make everyone "equal" by busting them down to the most disadvantaged student-cause thats fair n stuff.
If you read the actual original article it was Plato's idea in breaking up the family and Aristotle who disagreed the premise. These were ancient philosophers rather than modern left / right politicians in the society that gave us democracy. It would also have been the times where different Greek republics were famed for bringing their kids (nee Soldiers) and citizens up differently.
The article is about two modern philosophers debating the original (2000+ year old idea / argument)
I don't have a house cleaner.
And I make less than 20 an hour myself, and I'm doing a quite technical job, supporting/monitoring multiple computer systems.
Read more at Bedtime reading could disadvantage other children, academic says - 9news.com.au
Uhm, what do you think? Is "unfairly" advantaging their children something parents should even concern themselves with or feel bad about? According to the article, it is.
I don't have a house cleaner.
And I make less than 20 an hour myself, and I'm doing a quite technical job, supporting/monitoring multiple computer systems.
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