{"id":2177,"date":"2014-10-10T15:12:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:14:57","slug":"whats-wrong-with-disciplining-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2014\/10\/10\/whats-wrong-with-disciplining-children\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s wrong with disciplining children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jan Macvarish, co-author of the recent book Parenting Culture Studies, will be joined by Kent colleague Professor Frank Furedi and David Eberhard, Swedish psychiatrist and author of How Children Took Power, in a debate at the 10th <a title=\"Battle of ideas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.battleofideas.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Battle of Ideas Festival<\/a> in London on 18 October.<\/p>\n<p>The debate, titled What\u2019s wrong with disciplining children?, will consider why \u2018obedience\u2019, \u2018discipline\u2019 and \u2018parental authority\u2019 have become so controversial and why parents are now held directly responsible for every aspect of their child\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<p>The panel will discuss the claim that current parenting culture undermines many of the joys and pleasures of raising children by making so many of the decisions parents have to make fraught with difficulty and anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>David Eberhard, will argue that the \u2018child-centred\u2019 culture which Sweden embraced from the 1970s has made it impossible for adults to discipline children, whether at home, in school or in public places. The consequence of this is an endless round of negotiation and persuasion for which children are developmentally ill-quipped and which is exhausting for parents.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Furedi, who founded the <a title=\"CPCS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/research\/centres\/parenting-culture.html\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Parenting Culture Studies<\/a> at the University of Kent, is the author of Paranoid Parenting and Authority: A Sociological History. In 2001 he identified the problems created by a breakdown in solidarity and trust between adults and by a tendency to rubbish the experience and wisdom of older generations in favour of supposedly \u2018evidence-based expertise\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s wrong with disciplining children? will take place in the Barbican\u2019s Frobisher Room at 5.30pm. It will form part of the two-day annual Battle of Ideas Festival, organised by the Institute of Ideas, running from 18-19 October. Tickets are available from the Barbican Box Office.<\/p>\n<p>For Barbican Box Office go to: <a title=\"tickets email\" href=\"mailto:tickets@barbican.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">tickets@barbican.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jan Macvarish, co-author of the recent book Parenting Culture Studies, will be joined by Kent colleague Professor Frank Furedi and David Eberhard, Swedish psychiatrist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2014\/10\/10\/whats-wrong-with-disciplining-children\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}