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Ryan Bridge: We've taken parenting to a level beyond useful · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Oh look, I'm not that old, but I'm part of
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  Speaker 1: a generation that grew up pre cell phones. Grew up
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  Speaker 1: at a time where presents were usually clothing that you needed.
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  Speaker 1: Toys were chatterings, marbles, maybe a skateboard if you were
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  Speaker 1: really lucky. There was no picky eating. Did you hear
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  Speaker 1: about this last week? If you didn't finish what was
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  Speaker 1: on your plate at dinner, you didn't get a treat afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: and treats were usually fruit or a RaRo sachet if
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  Speaker 1: you managed to sneak one out of the pantry. There
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  Speaker 1: were no snacks. If you were hungry before dinner, Mum
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  Speaker 1: would say, drink a glass of water. Goodness, mate. School
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  Speaker 1: was basic. It was math, reading, writing, a bit of
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  Speaker 1: everything else. What we're learning as a society is that
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  Speaker 1: where collectively we have taken our eye off the ball,
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  Speaker 1: we've taken parenting to a level beyond usefulness. Do we
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  Speaker 1: need cheap, imported asbestos sand to engage toddlers, No we don't.
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  Speaker 1: Do we need one thousand fun school subjects in place
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  Speaker 1: of decent time on basic ones, No we don't. Do
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  Speaker 1: we need to tiptoe around kids not eating their veggies,
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  Speaker 1: as was suggested, yesterday for fear that they may develop
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  Speaker 1: some kind of eating disorder. No we don't do they
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  Speaker 1: all need cell phones that helicopter parents message constantly while
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  Speaker 1: their kids should be learning at school. No we don't.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't then and we don't now. And the results
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  Speaker 1: speak for themselves. The Aussies abandoning social media cell phone
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  Speaker 1: bands in schools here are working. According to those results, yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: students forced to do an hour of good old fashioned
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  Speaker 1: maths a day made a full year's progress in just
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  Speaker 1: twelve weeks. Kids are fatter than ever because of what
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  Speaker 1: we're feeding them, so the meal time passive parenting thing
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  Speaker 1: clearly ain't working. The good news is that it's not
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  Speaker 1: too late to turn all this around. Frankly, parents and
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  Speaker 1: teachers are the ones who need to grow up and
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  Speaker 1: show leadership here, not the kids. The kids will follow
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  Speaker 1: the lead. And the best news of all is that
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  Speaker 1: most of this stuff is easier and cheaper. We've set
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  Speaker 1: expectations too high, boundaries too low, and our kids are
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  Speaker 1: paying the price. For more from Early edition with Ryan Bridge.
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