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Ryan Bridge: Why is the state parenting our kids? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: There's a weird thing happening. Well, is it weird or
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  Speaker 1: has it been happening for a while and is it
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  Speaker 1: a race to the bottom? A weird thing happening with parents,
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  Speaker 1: responsibility and the state. Kids are either misbehaving or not
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  Speaker 1: learning properly. Parents are putting their hands up and the
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  Speaker 1: state is having to regulate what kids can and can't do.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching the news last night and there was
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  Speaker 1: a researcher on there telling the story of an early
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  Speaker 1: childhood teacher. Teacher said that parents had turned up with
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  Speaker 1: their toddler to the centre, handed over an iPad with
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  Speaker 1: the kid and said that the child would not eat
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  Speaker 1: any meals, i.e. wouldn't eat lunch, without being plugged into
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  Speaker 1: an iPad. I mean, that's outrageous. You can't tell me
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  Speaker 1: parents haven't heard that screen time is bad news. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: EC is for kids who are like three months to
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  Speaker 1: five years old. So perhaps to offset the kid being
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  Speaker 1: allowed to do whatever they want at home, National wants
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  Speaker 1: to ban screens in class for toddlers. In the UK
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  Speaker 1: at the moment, you've got the state now going after
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  Speaker 1: parents whose kids are behaving badly and turning into crooks.
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  Speaker 1: If your kid commits crimes, you could soon lose your
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  Speaker 1: benefit or be sent to prison or be fined for
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  Speaker 1: your kid's bad behaviour. So we have the state basically
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  Speaker 1: saying that parents are not controlling their kids, either on
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  Speaker 1: screens or on the streets, and so steps in to
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  Speaker 1: parent for them or use punishment to force a parent
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  Speaker 1: to parent properly. What the hell is wrong with parents?
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