Parenting styles: Oz vs UK
Jun 17th 2011, 12:29 am
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Jun 17th 2011, 12:37 am
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Re: Parenting styles: Oz vs UK
Jun 17th 2011, 12:48 am
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Re: Parenting styles: Oz vs UK
Calcium (bone density esp for teen girls), fish oils (eyes, brain and because son has asthma... ) and immune stuff to prevent him getting hideous chesty cold thing each winter.
I don't think you can get everything out of diet these days. Still, they don't always take supplements. We do it during Winter and when we remember. Eating is meant to be seasonal I think so supplementing is too.
I don't think you can get everything out of diet these days. Still, they don't always take supplements. We do it during Winter and when we remember. Eating is meant to be seasonal I think so supplementing is too.
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Re: Parenting styles: Oz vs UK
I have noticed a major difference in the parenting styles of Aussies compared to mine, regarding young kids that is. Or is it just me??
AFAIC it all seems to start with the nipple nazis and the health nurses. Everything is so prescriptive and concrete from a very early age. You must breast feed til the child is 21, you mustn't give them anything other than water to drink until they're 18, when fizzy piss suddenly becomes acceptable. They can have fruit and nothing else as a snack.
It doesn't stop there, we notice when go to ther people's houses that their kids must suffer deafness from being shouted at so much and so often. Don't jump on the couch, don't play with toys at the table..etc etc
There is one particular dad (wife's friend's OH) I cannot stand, on numerous occasions he has employed these parenting 'skills' on my children. Maybe fair enough in his house, but he he's done the same at ours. And he isn't the only nazi dad I've met. We had other 'friends' (again, of the wife, not mine) who came round once and he shouted at my son for climbing on the couch a while back. They're not welcome back.
And we've recently made friends with a scouse couple who are so much more laid back and fun with their son and my kids it's a pleasure to go there.
Is it just me??
AFAIC it all seems to start with the nipple nazis and the health nurses. Everything is so prescriptive and concrete from a very early age. You must breast feed til the child is 21, you mustn't give them anything other than water to drink until they're 18, when fizzy piss suddenly becomes acceptable. They can have fruit and nothing else as a snack.
It doesn't stop there, we notice when go to ther people's houses that their kids must suffer deafness from being shouted at so much and so often. Don't jump on the couch, don't play with toys at the table..etc etc
There is one particular dad (wife's friend's OH) I cannot stand, on numerous occasions he has employed these parenting 'skills' on my children. Maybe fair enough in his house, but he he's done the same at ours. And he isn't the only nazi dad I've met. We had other 'friends' (again, of the wife, not mine) who came round once and he shouted at my son for climbing on the couch a while back. They're not welcome back.
And we've recently made friends with a scouse couple who are so much more laid back and fun with their son and my kids it's a pleasure to go there.
Is it just me??
Yep.
There's an old expression that goes something along the lines of "tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you what kind of person you are". You described some people as "friends", clearly they aren't.
Another way of looking at this is "birds of a feather flock together".
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Jun 17th 2011, 1:24 am
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Jun 17th 2011, 1:47 am
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Yep.
There's an old expression that goes something along the lines of "tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you want kind of person you are". You described some people as "friends", clearly they aren't.
Another way of looking at this is "birds of a feather flock together".
There's an old expression that goes something along the lines of "tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you want kind of person you are". You described some people as "friends", clearly they aren't.
Another way of looking at this is "birds of a feather flock together".