Parents should be left alone to parent without public scrutiny or government intervention

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) December 16, 2011 --

WORLDbytes, the online citizen TV channel, has today launched a critical report entitled Trust us, we're parents, which explores how parenting is becoming an increasingly proscribed activity. Parents are no longer trusted to parent, and are instead subject to a steady stream of often conflicting, and always intrusive, 'advice'. This advice is no longer treated as optional, if you fail to take on board the latest childcare fad deemed best by policy makers for your baby then you risk being judged a 'bad parent' and guilty of some kind of negligence and abuse. Hence the recent stories of a family refused the chance to foster because the father had smoked two cigars in 12 months, the couple who were taken straight from the hospital to the police station after their baby tragically died and Nick Clegg's call for parenting classes.

WORLDbytes Citizen TV makers visited Jennie Bristow, journalist and writer of Standing Up To Supernanny and Alison Small and Jane Sandeman, members of the Institute of Ideas Parenting Forum. In their homes, surrounded by their children, these feisty mums provide a critical perspective and fresh understanding of what is going on. With suspicion and surveillance poisoning community life – and the lives of the children and parents of that community – Trust Us, We're Parents is a call to give parents the freedom to parent, without Nick Clegg, Jo Frost or any other public figure to telling us how to bring up our kids.

WORLDbytes Co-Director Viv Regan said today: “Parents are told what to put in their children's lunch boxes, how and if they are allowed to discipline their children and even how many minutes a day to read a story to their kids. It’s time to stop parents being treated like misguided children and to hand them back control.”

The report is available to watch on WORLDbytes at
http://www.worldbytes.org/trust-us-we%E2%80%99re-parents/
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For more information and interviews contact:
Ceri Dingle or Viv Regan at: info@worldbytes.org Tel: +44 (0)20 8985 5435

Notes to editors:
WORLDbytes is a unique online Citizen TV channel featuring reports and programmes created by volunteers. Its programmes aim to get behind the headlines and promote a people-first perspective on a wide-range of issues. WORLDbytes is run by the education charity WORLDwrite, registered charity number 1060869. The charity's website address is www.worldwrite.org.uk

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