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Published Date: 13 December 2006
By ANDREW BORTHWICK
THE concept of robot babies and state-sponsored classes teaching us how to raise our children is about as science fiction as can be. This concept is not from the pages of George Orwell or Aldous Huxley, though. It is the next step in an initiative by East Ayrshire Council to implement positive social change in the region.
Last month, the council announced it was launching parenting classes, both as part of the curriculum for children and as evening classes for adults. The school classes follow the virtual baby initiative, started in Doon Valley in 2000, where children...



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Derek Williams,

Edinburgh 16/12/2006 18:34:57

Obviously, every parent is always a beginner when they have their first and sometimes only child. TV shows like Supernanny, while perhaps simplistic, do reveal how tough this process is for many parents, who often endlessly repeat completely ineffective discipline thereby leaving it to schools to try to mop up the mess. A growing cause for concern is the number of children who are involved in knife attacks and the like. Such youth appear to lack any of what the Nuremburg Nazi trials once determined was a defining quality of a human being - empathy. Turn off the TV and spend quality time with your kids.


 

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