Spunky at SpunkyHomeSchool has some great thoughts about Outsourcing Parenthood. She makes the point that many parents are happy to let someone else take over part, or even all, of the responsibility of being a parent. I liked Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's comment: "If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." If a parent shuffles the job off to someone else, and the children turn out badly, then the parent has messed up, not the proxy. As parents we have the sole responsibility to help our children to develop into good adults.
The Headmistress in The Common Room is continuing a discussion about television, Television: Doesn't Content Matter? I posted yesterday "Would you let this stranger into your house?" partly in response to her Shrine in Your Corner. Today the Headmistress writes about what happens inside young children's minds as they watch television, and why there is great cause for concern.
Townhall.com has a column by John Stossel. John had the hard hitting one hour report on 20/20 about problems with education in America. John's solution is to give America's true choice in education by allowing parents to pick where their children go to school. The column today explores how some parents will cheat to get their children into a good school. He asks which is more wrong, a public school system which is not educating most of the children, or parents who break the rules to get their children into good schools.
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