Are we over-protecting children?
A new report out today claims that over-protecting children stops them developing the skills and resilience they need to protect themselves. Do you agree? The report “No Fear” explores a number of key areas including children’s play, anti-social behaviour, adult vetting and fear of strangers, identifying the ways in which our preoccupation with eliminating risk is restricting children’s freedoms and corroding their relationships with adults.
“Although there is a widely held view that children grow up faster today, in fact their lives are far more controlled than they were 30 years ago,” says former government adviser and author of the report, Tim Gill.
DIVAS says:
People, while trying to make their offsprings perfect, are messing with nature’s mechanism of growth.
Children should be allowed to tread an unknown path; if parents really care for their kids grow out of fear.
They should be allowed to do things own their own; even if they may hurt themselves while doing so - that’s the only way how an organism learns in nature.
And there are no 100% safe practises even if one wished for.
One Response to “Are we over-protecting children?”
cyberpunk, on November 18th, 2007 at 3:29 pm Said:
I agree with this. I think parents are overprotecting kids nowadays.
We grew up with less “protection” from things and other people, but we did ok (fine, I’m not a good example, but you get my drift)…
Kids need to learn and think for themselves.
How should we teach children to read?
Should schools concentrate on testing, or on fostering a love of reading?
Reading standards have barely improved since the 1950s despite billions of pounds spent on trying to raise English levels in primary schools, according to a review.
Pupils feel increasingly stressed about school tests and are losing their love for books, researchers for the Primary Review project found.
But schools ministers dispute the findings, which form part of the largest review of primary education for forty years and say primary standards were at their highest levels. (BBC)
DIVAS opines:
Home is the place where schooling begins. Kids love to imitate their first role-models: their parents.
A sense of humor is can only make the kids engaged in their studies.
Most of all, respecting each child as an individual creates the necessary trust in teacher which is most essential if to get attention from students.
Besides, stuffing students’ mind with never-ending-homeworks and the ‘High Expectation’ from a very early age only make them worried all the time; sometimes leading to anxiety and depression.
Kids, especially, learn better as the nature itself teaches its lessons. They should be allowed to take their adventures.
Teaching, like all things beautiful things in life, is more an art than only theories and information.
And, as the saying goes, what persuades people of all age to do impossible is, again, LOVE.
One Response to “How should we teach children to read?”
Michael B. Dycus, Ph.D, on November 10th, 2007 at 11:12 pm Said:
I agree with you whole-heartedly on your take on this subject.
In my opinion, you are 100% correct!
Thanks for this highly insightful post!
Should more doctors be available around the clock?
The Royal College of Physicians report says the current system of out-of-hours care is inadequate and inflexible. And as a result people forced to go to hospital for reassurance.
The report has warned that people with serious, longstanding illnesses are not getting enough help outside normal working hours resulting in people ending up at A&E because there’s nowhere else for them to go. Out-of-hours care has come in for scrutiny in recent years, and a GP contract negotiated in 2004 allowed family doctors to opt out of providing a round-the clock service.
DIVAS :
The news is from Britain. Just think what would be the situation in a country like Nepal, where docotor/patient is among the highest in the world.
However, no matter how concerned one is for public health sector, it shouldn’t be forgotton that doctors, too, are human beings. They just wear out after long hours of work.
Hence, the idea of round-the-clock doctors indeed sounds great, but making the same doctors work overtime might cause in serious error in the service they provide.
One Response to “Should more doctors be available around the clock?”
Mase, on December 21st, 2007 at 8:58 pm Said:
Who wrote this article? Half of the sentences don’t make sense and the grammar is horrible, nobody is going to take this seriously.
