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    The No-Nonsense Guide to Good Parenting
    The No-Nonsense Guide to Good Parenting
    The No-Nonsense Guide to Good Parenting
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    The No-Nonsense Guide to Good Parenting

    By Nanny Phillips

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    Sadly, parenting is often a rather neglected subject. Many parents need some no-nonsense parenting advice, but they're struggling to get it in the age of political-correctness, when society is all too willing to criticise parents, but rarely so willing to offer them much in the way of practical, workable parenting advice. But Nanny Phillips is here to help! This book contains her no-nonsense parenting advice, based on her many years of child-caring experience - and is ideal for any new or prospective parents.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIMOS.org.uk
    Release dateFeb 21, 2018
    ISBN9781386766247
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      The No-Nonsense Guide to Good Parenting - Nanny Phillips

      The No-Nonsense Guide to Good Parenting

      by Nanny Phillips

      Copyright 2018

      Disclaimer: Please be aware that this book is intended merely to present the subjective opinions of its author - nothing more. Parents remain entirely responsible for their own parenting decisions. Neither the author nor the publisher will accept any responsibility in this regard. Particular note should be made that the author makes no claim to medical expertise of any kind. For advice on any medical or health-related issues, please consult a suitably qualified person.

      Introduction

      Let's get this out of the way first of all: I'm old-fashioned and I make no apology for being so. I'm also a no-nonsense, rather politically-incorrect sort of person and this is a no-nonsense, rather politically-incorrect sort of book.

      If you are looking for some 'progressive' parenting advice that panders to all the politically-correct sensitivities of our modern society, then I'm afraid you're going to have to look elsewhere, because you won't find that sort of nonsense here. I do not think children should have to be wary of committing inadvertent 'micro-aggressions' and I do not think 'gender-fluid parenting' is a remotely sane idea under any circumstances!

      This is my perspective: I've been looking after children, privately and professionally, for most of my life - and whilst I'm perfectly aware that there have always been people who are not especially good at being parents, I particularly despair at the sort of parenting standards I often see on display in today's society and I dread to think how bad parenting standards are behind closed doors.

      Like me, you've probably seen those parents in the supermarket, their child throwing a tantrum on the supermarket floor or in some other way making a ridiculous fuss over something or other. And what are those parents doing? They're frantically trying to bribe their little brat with promises of sweets or other undeserved treats, in a desperate attempt to calm them down - a strategy that is very obviously going to exacerbate the overall problem. This sort of frankly pathetic, namby-pamby parenting is unfortunately all too common these days.

      It's hardly surprising then, that we wind up with our current epidemic of spoilt, ludicrously-sensitive, 'snowflake' college students who throw a temper tantrum whenever a visiting speaker says something they don't want to hear. They expect to be protected from free speech, in case they find it offensive. They appear terrified that hearing an opinion they don't happen to agree with might 'trigger' some sort of allergic reaction. In my view, their parents must have done something terribly wrong to have produced such pathetic, weak-minded offspring.

      And many people go on acting like selfish, inconsiderate, spoilt children, even when they're supposed to be full adults and have responsibility for children of their own.

      So, yes, I'm very concerned about the state of parenting skills in our modern societies - and I want to try to do my bit to improve the situation.

      And in my view, the nonsense of modern political-correctness is not just a symptom of the problem. It is a major cause of the problem. I can't abide political-correctness in any case, but it seems to me that parenting is one of those areas of life that has been most seriously harmed by it. I get especially angry and upset when it interferes with and undermines good parenting - and when it encourages the sort of nonsense ideas and nonsense attitudes that do real and lasting damage to children.

      Modern political-correctness undermines parents in two main ways. The first is that it constantly disparages traditional parenting methods, whilst rarely advocating any workable, sensible alternatives.

      If you discipline children, take away their privileges, or even so much as criticise them or tell them off, the politically-correct zealots of this world are all too eager to denounce you as a bad parent.

      New parents are faced with an enormous amount of PC snottiness about what parenting techniques are not appropriate and no longer acceptable. There's so much tut-tutting about what they aren't supposed to do, that many parents are very unsure indeed about what they are supposed to do.

      Consequently, a lot of parents are actually too afraid to do much parenting at all. They're too embarrassed about possibly getting it wrong and being frowned at, criticised, ridiculed, or even reported to the authorities, that they shy away from active parenting - as if it is better not to bother, than to try hard and be criticised anyway.

      Parents stand back and let schools, the TV, the games console, mobile phones, the internet and other children take over the job of parenting - but schools, the TV, the games console, mobile phones, the internet and other children are terrible at parenting. No parent is perfect, but this 'not parenting' strategy is disastrous - much worse than just being moderately inept.

      And when today's parents are eventually forced to do some parenting - when their offspring get completely out of hand and have already become spoilt brats - they're often so timid and unsure of themselves that they make the situation worse, rather than better.

      What parents usually need is some firm, simple, practical, plainly-spoken parenting advice. Unfortunately, they rarely get it - and once again, this is due to political-correctness.

      You see; the second major way in which political-correctness undermines good parenting, is by encouraging people - parents included - to be so ridiculously sensitive to criticism and so quick to take offence, that other people become extremely reluctant to offer them the advice they clearly need.

      In today's hyper-sensitive society, almost any advice is automatically interpreted as criticism - and most people seem to have been rigorously brainwashed to take offence over any form of criticism, no matter how kindly it is meant or how helpful it could potentially be.

      And when it is parenting advice, the situation is even worse. Simply offering parenting advice to a mother may quickly be interpreted as nothing but a thinly-disguised insult to her parenting skills; just an underhand way of saying, 'You are a terrible mother!' Little or no account is taken of how good the advice is, or how urgently it was required.

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