Are You a Gentleman There With Gray Hair?

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We in britain are adolescents and young people lead the world in taking overdoses, er, not in suicide. I don't know whether as a reflection of the general level of competences. And i personally examine 15, tow about 15 thousand people who had done it,. Its children or soys chi adles, adolescence in young adults. Yes, recently children. Am a gentleman there with gray hair? Just te martin, i am. He is grey haired and about 50 years older than anybody else here. Ad nigt i thin. My question is for frank and justine. Do you feel it significant that in all that time i never once encountered a parent who didn't

Why are there so many Chinese maths and music prodigies? Because Chinese mothers believe schoolwork and music practice come first, that an A-minus is a bad grade, that sleepovers, TV and computer games should never be allowed and that the only activity their children should be permitted to do are ones in which they can eventually win a medal - and that medal must be gold. These methods certainly seem to get results but do they make for the rounded individuals Western parents are striving to bring up? Isn't it better that our children should be happy rather than burnt-out brain boxes? Who's right and who's wrong? In this debate from June 2011, Amy Chua, author of the best-selling Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and Theodore Dalrymple, the writer and psychologist, speak for the motion. Justine Roberts, co-founder of Mumsnet, and Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent and parenting expert, speak against the motion. The debate was chaired by columnist and broadcaster Jenni Russell

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