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Helpless children |
3 August 2004 |
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Are we making our young people incapable?
Can your children cook? Clean a toilet? Pay a gas bill? Is your 20-year-old still languishing at home? Young people seem to be increasingly helpless. But is it their parent's fault?
Carola Weymouth runs cookery courses to give children survival skills which some of them don't learn at home. Sharmini Selvarajah went along to see what they could do.
And Jenni discusses whether children are too mollycoddled with author and psychotherapist Gael Lindenfield, who thinks we protect our children too much and writer and broadcaster David Aaronovitch, who thinks summer camps may be the answer to get children out more.
Gael Lindenfield's book Confident Teens: How to Raise a Positive, Confident and Happy Teenager is published by Harper Collins
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