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Parents are to be taught to sing nursery rhymes to their children in a £30million Government initiative recently unveiled.
A parenting academy is being launched to improve child-rearing skills.
The centre - to be based at King's College, London - will train a "parenting workforce" to promote proven techniques among new mothers and fathers.
Mad so but some eejits do need to be told don't drink bleach it's bad for you.
Stevie
Da sung Celtic songs to me minus the swearing and threats of violence
Unbelievable. This government of course, has increased the amount of tests which are carried out on young children. It also wants single mothers to be back in work, so let's just examine this proposal logically. Single mother with three-year-old child works while it is at the nursery, and looks after it when it is at home because she has nobody who she can turn to to look after the child. Just how does she find time to learn nursery rhimes which are so familiar that she should already know them anyway? Oh and if you think this will be the end of the matter, think again. Soon, there will be more texts on children to make sure that they've been singing nursery rhimes with their parents. Let's assume the child is a bit slow but has been doing the nursery-rhime singing. The child gets a low score, and the parent is made accountable despite all of her trying. How does the parent help the child deal with the stress of exams, when the parent is also stressed by the same exams?
it's scary alright the state has gone mad with this parenting thing
I've respect for anyone trying to bring up children today
I can't beleive this! a school teaching something the parrent should already know? and who is giving all the money for this? you're right! it's a waste of time!
this british government, the labour party, love their tests and targets. they are trying to create perfect kids and perfect parents, and if you don't get there, you will be fined/imprisoned/shamed, it's a ral shit. and sorry for the bad langauge, but Icould see this labour government doing all this back in 1997 when they were elected
i can believe it and think it's a great idea. first off, yes maybe the parents should already know. but let's face reality here, some don't. unfortunately there are too many parents out there that didn't plan to be parents or who didn't want to be parents. and there are some great parents who didn't have such great parents to teach them nursery rhymes when they were younger. so ya know what, someone is stepping up to help those that need help. y ridicule them for wanting to help? i mean i've seen a board topic on here about tying shoes and many posted that they didn't learn till an older age or still can't do it. so if someone wants to teach them to tie their shoes at say 21, she that person be ridiculed for wanting to help?
nursery rhymes are a very good learning tool for children. they help with speech, thought process, counting, reading, when actions are put with them large and fine motor skills, and i could go on and on. and these first nursery rhymes are just part of what is a start of all the little things that children need to learn to grow and develop into smart teens and adults who have those skills to grow up and become a contributing member to society.
also nursery rhymes are a very simple way to bond with your child. and bonding is also a very important part of a child's development.
take this into thought, part of a child learning to hold scissors and use them correctly starts off with a child learning how to tear paper. since tearing paper is such a simple thing, is it a waste of time that a child learns it? when you see the end result of why it is important, no it isn't a waste of time at all.
seeing part of the end results of a child learning nursery rhymes to me means they are very important and if a parent doesn't know them, then it is definitely not a waste of time for them to learn. better late than never especially when they have their own little ones to raise and help along the learning path in life.
i have 2 more things to say before i shut up for now.
first off i've been working in child care for about 7 years now. and i can honestly say that i don't even know all of the nursery rhymes. i learn something knew about kids and different ways to teach them with every inservice i go to. i personally don't think these are a waste of time and they are pretty much the same thing as the nursery rhymes classes.
and finally for now, a friend of mine is a bit older than me and is pregnant. she has asked me the words to rhymes and songs and things that she can sing and say to her children when born. i do what i can to help her out here. and it isn't a waste of my time or hers. she either didn't know them or forgot in her old age.
It sounds like a waste of time because parents shoul already know nursery rhymes and things to sing with their children. They probably used to sing them when the were younger, anyway and the government should spend their money on something useful.