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Re: Science, evidence, experts and the new parenting culture update: A Policy Driven By Prejudice Masquerading As Research

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Octavia Wiseman <[log in to unmask]>

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A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive health research." <[log in to unmask]>, Octavia Wiseman <[log in to unmask]>

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I signed up to go to this conference a few weeks ago.  Looks even more 
interesting now.  Thank you for this.

X Octavia

-----Original Message----- 
From: Scamell, Amanda
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 2:55 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: FW: Science, evidence, experts and the new parenting culture 
update: A Policy Driven By Prejudice Masquerading As Research

The forwarded email below represents a body of academic activity within the 
social sciences which is rarely engaged with within midwifery debate and 
offers a fascinating and challenging perspective on some of the ideological 
assumptions which currently underpin contemporary parenting policy and 
practice in the UK and elsewhere.

Mandie Scamell
________________________________________
From: Ellie Lee [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 August 2011 08:21
Subject: Science, evidence, experts and the new parenting culture update: A 
Policy Driven By Prejudice Masquerading As Research

Welcome to the latest Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (CPCS) 
newsletter. This goes to those who have attended events organised by CPCS, 
and others who have expressed an interest in the work of the Centre.  If for 
any reason you do not want to receive future mailings, let me know.

Ellie Lee, Director CPCS [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Parenting Culture Studies on-line: The Centre for Parenting Culture Studies 
blog is online at: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/

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1. Monitoring parents: Science, evidence, experts and the new parenting 
culture

British colleagues may have noticed (and those in other countries may be 
interested in) the latest demand that parents ‘follow the rules’ when it 
comes to child rearing.

‘Parenting Matters: early years and social mobility’ was published last week 
by the think-tank Centre Forum, and its arguments welcomed by Sarah Teather, 
the Minister of State for Children and Families. (See 
http://www.centreforum.org/assets/pubs/parenting-matters.pdf )

The report repeats the assertion that, ‘the single most important factor 
influencing a child’s intellectual and social development is the quality of 
parenting and care they receive’. Parenting, we are told, is problematically 
‘largely viewed as an intensely private matter’, but ‘key scientific 
concepts behind the development of early brain architecture’ tell us it 
should not be viewed this way. The case is made that increasing ‘social 
mobility’ in particular means that parenting must viewed as a central policy 
problem.

To this end, the family is termed the ‘Home Learning Environment’ throughout 
the report. It is argued that policy has been too focussed on ‘enabling 
parents to spend more time with their children’ and not enough attention has 
been paid to influencing ‘what parents are doing with this time’, to create 
the right sort of ‘Home Learning Environment’. It is argued that a ‘culture 
shift’ is needed, and a ‘national parenting campaign’ can help make this 
happen.

To change how parents spend time with their children the report proposes 
specifically a ‘5-a-day for child development’ campaign, modelled on the 
5-a-day fruit and vegetables campaign. This campaign, apparently, ‘drawing 
directly on the science of early child development’ would tell parents to: 
Read to your child for 15 minutes; play with your child on the floor for 10 
minutes; Talk with your child for 20 minutes with the television off; Adopt 
positive attitudes towards your child and praise them frequently; and Give 
your child a nutritious diet to aid development.

Read a commentary on the report here:
‘They **** you up, Your Parenting Classes’
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10968/

The upcoming CPCS event Monitoring parents: Science, evidence, experts and 
the new parenting culture provides the opportunity to analyse and discuss 
this concerted drive to politicise parenting, and the claims-making about 
‘brain architecture’ that justifiy it. Papers will also consider many other 
related themes, with contributions by colleagues from Canada, the US, 
Ireland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium Spain, Italy, 
Australia, as well as England, Wales and Scotland.

The final programme is here:

http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/files/2011/08/Monitoring-Parents-Final-Programme.pdf

Abstracts and other information are here:
http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/pcs-events/forthcoming-events/parenting-science/

On the ‘Read on’ pages for the event you can find a new commentary by Dr 
Ellie Lee ‘A Policy Driven By Prejudice Masquerading As Research’ as well as 
articles and other items by/about keynote speakers:

http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/pcs-events/forthcoming-events/parenting-science/read-on/

Registration for the event costs:
Waged (2 days) £85; Waged (1 day) £45; Unwaged / student (1 or 2 days) £35

A booking form is here:

<http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/pare>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/pare<http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/files/2011/01/Booking-Form.pdf>ntingculturestudies/files/2011/01/Booking-Form.pdf

There are 15 places left and the final date for registration is Friday 2 
September

2. Read on…..

‘Daring to criticise child protection policies’, by Heather Piper
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10969/

‘The 'Foundation Years': For a New Generation of Mini-Camerons?’ by Jennie 
Bristow
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jennie-bristow/the-foundation-years-for-_b_902326.html 

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