[the truth]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I've mentioned before on this forum I think, I ran a parenting forum for over three years and asked this question every day, and tried endlessly to try to do something about it. I ran facebook pages with over 5000 members, hosted and ran websites for various bloggers and article writers with large readerships, fought against people recommending some truly abhorrent parenting "techniques", wrote dozens of guest articles myself... literally sank YEARS into the campaign for better parenting.

The experience can be summed up thus:




... There is the answer. Absolutely nothing can be done about it. Nothing. People are selfish, defensive, egocentric and stuck in their ways at the best of times, and throwing children into the mix seems to do nothing but amplify that.

It eventually was just to much for me and I let all of it go. All you can really do is put your own children first, and let other people just get on with ensuring that their own children become physically or mentally ill or both. All I achieved by trying to do something about it, was leave myself feeling depressed and lost, and wishing that I could forget half of the **** that I found out about various "parenting techniques".

[edit] to add - OH... and this was mainly trying to counter stuff that has become "normal" or "mainstream". Beyond that you have swathes of truly non-functional parents. So where do you even start? By getting the children of THOSE parents up to the level of so-called "normal" parents following prescribed suppernanny-style bullcrap and feeding their kids "normal" processed muck? Is there any point? Uuurrghhh... right I need to go away and calm down now.

Id pay child benefits in food vouchers, end of