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	The Modern Parents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Modern Parents are characters who appeared in Viz magazine in the early 1990s as a parody of "modern" parents.
		Malcolm and Cressida are the modern parents in question, adults whose obsession with equality, liberalisation, and environmental awareness often works against their basic role as parents to despairing eldest son Tarquin and backgrounded younger child Guinevere (who is, despite the name, a boy).
		The Modern Parents do not believe in gender stereotyping or traditional childhood activities such as visiting fairgrounds, frequenting fast food restaurants, taking part in games or competitions, playing sports or with toys, enjoying foreign holidays, or even going to school.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Modern_Parents (798 words)

	Facts about topic: (The Modern Parents) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Modern Parents are characters who appeared in VIZ (additional info and facts about VIZ) magazine in the early 1990s as an antidote to the type of left-wing, sharing, forever-young parenting which was becoming more prevalent in society.
		Malcolm and Cressida are the parents in question; they are adults whose obsession with equality, liberalisation and environmental awareness gets in the way of their basic role as parents to despairing eldest son Tarquin and backgrounded younger child Guinevere.
		The Modern Parents is written and drawn by John Fardell who is also responsible for producing several other strips also published in Viz such as The Critics, Ferdinard the Foodie and Desert Island Teacher.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Th/The_Modern_Parents.htm (577 words)

	Hernando Today - Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Modern parents often simplistically think any lust issues on the part of the staff, adults and younger campers would easily be handled by their "sophisticated teenagers." These same naïve thinking adults simultaneously take their preteens to rock concerts and provide their teenagers rented hotel rooms to have alcohol parties with minimal to no chaperoning.
		It is easier for modern parents to assign unrealistic trust in their children's decision- making ability than to restrict them for their own safety.
		Parents must do what is right for the safety and development of their children even if it means disobeying anti-family laws.
	www.hernandotoday.com /columnists/MGB3248NZBE.html (613 words)

	Modern parents use kids as fashion accessories!:- - World News - Webindia123.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This might sound weird but modern parents use their kids as fashion embellishments whose real needs are to be taken care of by somebody else.
		Parents are not ready to devote time in teaching their children the basic manners of every day life and at the same time are negligent about their studies.
		Parents are becoming "more dependent on state intervention" and are not likely to provide even the most basic of training to their own children, they treat children as "mini-adults from the age of three", Mr.
	news.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=74822&cat=World (208 words)

	Indiachildren - Role of Modern Parents
		Parenting has never been easy especially with more double income families it becomes more difficult as parents don't have time in hand to spend for their children
		Parents who thrive on working and leave their children at home should make a special effort to stay close to them like, snuggling together before going to bed, reading a favorite story book together, eating breakfast together, may be a walk together after work.
		As parents one must make it a part to until values like honesty, punctuality, sharing, etc. If the child does share with another child may be his toys, he must be applauded.
	www.indiachildren.com /Growing/10to15y/modparents.htm (433 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| Modern mothers 'have less sleep'
		Modern babies wake up three times a night and take 33 minutes to settle each time, compared to babies in the 1960s and 1970s who tended to only wake twice in the night and took just 20 minutes to settle.
		Parents now are most likely to feed or cuddle their baby until they fall asleep, although one in 10 said they let their baby drift off in front of the TV.
		When modern mothers were asked how they viewed advice from their own mothers or mother-in-laws, three quarters said they were irritated - but 62% admitted "she is usually right".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/4600775.stm (1261 words)

	In modern China, parents pushing for super tykes \| csmonitor.com
		Weekend classes for 3 to 12-year-olds are a national obsession, as urban parents regularly spend a third or more of their income in hopes that junior will become a "dragon," a dominant character among peers.
		Parents say their kids need such "extras" to get into a top middle school, which itself will lead to a top high school and college.
		Parents all say they can ignore peer pressure and don't want to push their kids too hard.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0510/p01s04-woap.html (1000 words)

	When It's Your Own Child
		Parents say that teachers are caring and knowledgeable, and they give their own school good marks for providing high quality services.
		According to most parents of special-needs children, the social stigma attached to special education is fading, and few feel resentment from other parents for the services their child gets.
		On the whole, parents of special-needs children are optimistic that their child can make academic progress, and their overall views on standards and testing are very similar to those of other parents.
	www.publicagenda.org /specials/specialed/specialed.htm (996 words)

	articles : Between Two Worlds: Ministering to Modern Parents and Postmodern Students : Youth Specialties
		Meanwhile, a group of younger evangelicals is sensing that this modern expression may not be relevant to the emerging generations and have adapted their ministries accordingly.
		After all, this group of parents genuinely wanted to see students develop as life-long followers of Jesus Christ; they were just a little startled by the absence of elements that were key to their own Christian lives.
		I started talking with parents, not about postmodernism, but about what our students need; and with each point of contention, I asked myself, "Are there ways of talking about this subject to a generation that doesn't understand it but has strong reactions to it?" From then on, our conversations started to be more fruitful.
	www.youthspecialties.com /articles/topics/family/two_worlds.php (2476 words)

	November/December 2000 PT
		Paradoxically, modern parents consistently tell me they're putting more effort into child rearing than did their parents yet are experiencing more problems, especially in the area of discipline.
		The pre-modern (pre-1995) parent considered misbehavior to be a moral issue, whereas the contemporary parent tends to see it as a psychological issue.
		Note that within the context of the modern explanation, the child with a behavior problem is actually a victim of circumstances beyond her control.
	www.ptm.org /00PT/NovDec/AnalyzeThis.htm (1182 words)

	CM Series in Modern English
		Parents naturally stop doing every little thing for their child as they see that he can feed and dress himself, and they encourage him to do more for himself as he is able.
		The parents are delighted to watch their child's personality develop, but the more a child begins to do for himself, the less the parents feel the need to do for him beyond feeding him, clothing him, and showing affection.
		English parents rarely go so far as to arrive late for a dinner party as one couple in a magazine did because their three-year-old didn't want them to go, so they had to pretend to undress and go to bed and then sneak out after she was asleep.
	www.amblesideonline.org /CM/M1_1.html (8868 words)

	Journal of Social History: Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America
		Stearns' account of parents' century-long struggle to come to terms with schooling--from their first frontal assaults on homework to their later insistence on grade inflation--is a satisfying synthesis of economic, demographic, familial, and attitudinal shifts that came together by the Sixties, when the campaign for student self-esteem emerged.
		The anxiety arose when parents responded to that realization by seeking to control the milieu in which their children moved and to reduce change.
		Because change was exactly what such parents could not--and ultimately did not want to--control, and because control was what they could not have in any case, they were bound to be conflicted and anxious.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2005/is_3_38/ai_n13698505 (1083 words)

	USATODAY.com - Do parents matter? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Culture cramming may be a foundational belief of modern parenting but, according to the data, it doesn't improve early childhood test scores.
		Because parents who buy a lot of children's books tend to be smart and well-educated to begin with — and they pass on their smarts and work ethic to their kids.
		The privilege gap is far more real than the fear that haunts so many modern parents — that their children will fail miserably without regular helpings of culture cramming and competitive parenting.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2005-05-03-parents-edit_x.htm (866 words)

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		A lot of parents, it seems to me, become intensely preoccupied with their child's welfare, and forget they are also supposed to protect the world from the monsters we are all capable of becoming.
		There is, as the saying goes, some bad news and some good news, and parents are the diplomats who must convey it to the aliens who have landed in their homes.
		Children who like their parents-- and know their parents like them-- will go into the world with a piece of equipment that is worth a dozen degrees and several dozen lectures on punctuality and good manners.
	www.philart.net /tompurdom/parents.htm (749 words)

	City Pages - Safe Child Syndrome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Spock encouraged parents to look for signs that their child was ready for more independence, and to applaud each new step away from the hearth.
		Kids, of course, excel at exploring their mean feelings, and a good chunk of the parental playground hovering I've witnessed seems to be aimed at getting children to say only kind things to each other, to act selflessly, and generally observe the kind of social niceties their parents observe.
		When I was a toddler, my father's parents both were hospitalized for long periods, Grandpa for emphysema and Grandma for a heart condition that was diagnosed as the result of trying to care for him by herself.
	www.citypages.com /databank/26/1267/article13058.asp (6032 words)

	Bristol University - School of Modern Languages - Parents
		Parents or Guardians are welcome to accompany applicants on their visit to the School of Modern Languages and are welcome to join the Parents and Guardians talk at 2.30 p.m.
		Park Street, Queen’s Road and Whiteladies Road are a short walk from the School of Modern Languages, and have a large number of restaurants and public houses that serve meals.
		Alternatively both the University Refectory in the Hawthorns complex and the University Union in Queens Road are open for coffee from 10.00 am and lunches from 12.00 – 2.00 p.m.
	www.bris.ac.uk /sml/undergraduates/admissions/opendays/parents.html (739 words)

	Sports Psychology Guidelines for Sports Parents - Gentle Parent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Parents and kids alike will enjoy assembling the LogiRobot® and watching it speed and spin about the house, performing tricks that bring robotic principles to life.
		I get several emails a month from concerned sports parents asking me how they should help their child superstar win at and enjoy sports.
		This is a great tool to guide parents in their interaction with young athletes.
	www.gentleparent.com /home/content/view/92/42 (706 words)

	Clearlybusiness > Modern parents 'suffer less sleep'
		In a survey of new parents in Britain, Mother & Baby Magazine found that modern mothers get on average only 3 and a half hours of sleep each night compared to the five hours their own mothers accumulated.
		As a result, the majority of mothers who today have to return to work are unable to catch up on sleep during the day.
		"Today's working parents are so time poor, their anxiety to 'get baby to bed so they can have a bit of an evening' actually prevents baby from falling asleep," said Elena Dalyrmple, editor of Mother & Baby Magazine.
	www.clearlybusiness.com /cb/articles/nf_11177383911572.jsp (367 words)

	Hillsboro Free Press
		Adolescence, as we've come to know it, is changing-and parents and other adults who care about young people passing through that life stage need to understand those changes and learn to address them.
		Instead of judging them, which only widens the chasm, parents and youth workers would be wise to slow down long enough from their own agenda to spend time with their kids and to listen to them.
		Too often parents make one of two mistakes: they are too rigid with the boundaries they set, and kids respond with hostility, or they set no boundaries, which kids interpret as abandonment.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1163&dept_id=99718&newsid=13516430&PAG=461&rfi=9 (972 words)

	iB::Topic::Parents down, predators up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Parental rights are being eroded and something needs to be done about it.
		But where the article states that the camps are a further case of erosion due to their existence, I see the government's involvement as a further erosion in that they do not have the right to choose whom they can trust to keep their children using their own parenting philosophy (nudism).
		Parents are the ones who send their children to any camps.
	www.mynudelife.com /cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?s=6f94b864998432d1aa8a4fa845610017;act=ST;f=15;t=32 (1000 words)

	Old know-how missing for many modern parents - National - www.smh.com.au
		Parents lack the skills to raise well-adjusted children and need more help, an international congress will be told today.
		Professor Barnett said many parents today came from small families and often had no one to turn to for advice.
		How parents looked at and talked to their baby, and how reliable they were, was crucial to a child's development.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/07/21/1090089220585.html?from=moreStories (647 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| Parents more physical with babies
		Modern parents believe they are more affectionate to their babies than previous generations.
		A survey found nine out of 10 mothers say they have more physical contact with their babies than their own parents did with them.
		Mary Newburn, of the National Childbirth Trust, told BBC News Online that while parenting styles were constantly changing, it was difficult to draw firm conclusions from people's perceptions of how they were treated by their own parents as a child.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/health/3654830.stm (267 words)

	Spanking--Modern Parents' Dirty Little Secret
		Eighty-six percent of respondents stated that they had been spanked as children, and a staggering 69 percent of these parents of infants are already committed to spanking as a form of parental guidance.
		Perhaps parents should ponder, as they spank their children, the fact that all this spanking hasn't done much to keep America's youth on the right track (and ample research suggests it does exactly the opposite).
		Most of the loving, conscientious parents I know have had the occasional tough time controlling their tempers, have at one time or another handled their child too roughly in the heat of the moment.
	www.nospank.net /howitz.htm (1219 words)

	Indiachildren - Teaching Children Value of Money
		As parents one must allow their children certain degree of freedom.
		It is very essential for a parent to give his child pocket money.
		As parents one has to instill on a child that money can make the world go round - so don't judge in terms of money.
	www.indiachildren.com /Growing/10to15y/money.htm (376 words)

	Amazon.ca: Baby's First Tattoo : A Memory Book for Modern Parents: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This book is for parents who are thinking of having, who are near having, or who have recently had a real baby.
		For someone who was a little overwhelmed at the amount of stuff out there that's targeted towards new parents (read: designed to guilt new parents into buying their schlock so you don't feel like you're neglecting your child), this book was a breath of fresh air.
		It definitly is not for single parents (which I am) and I found that I can't even fill out half of the book because of the categories such as: "Name of cab driver/police officer who helped deliver baby", and other silly questions that make up the book.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743224450 (1051 words)

	children's walking harness reins -- terminology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Figure 1.--The modern child saftey devces are commonly referred to as child walking harnnesses.
		Many parents, especially modern parents, object to the use of harnesses or resrtrining devices for children.
		Despite the fact that it is rather an inappropriate use of the word, the modern restraining devices for young children are commnly referred to as harnesses in America.
	histclo.hispeed.com /style/other/harn/harn-term.html (955 words)

	Title: "Modern Times" - Topics: Cinema; U.S./1929 - 1941; Chaplin; Charlie Chaplin; Great Depression; Little ...
		Age: 8+; Not Rated; Comedy; 87 minutes; 1936; B and W. In this classic film we follow the misadventures of the Little Tramp as he tries to survive and find fulfillment in a depression ravaged United States.
		PARENTS: Watch the movie with your children and briefly talk about its message.
		"Modern Times" is acknowledged to be the last of the great silent movies.
	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/modern-times.html (621 words)

	Modern Natural Parents
		As if parenting wasn't challenging enough, we modern parents are given the job of mustering our courage to see through information designed to pray on our insecurities and undermine our confidence.
		We must also attempt to find ways to include our children in our lives in a society where their presence is often unwelcome in public places and at social gatherings.
		We hope that they will never become independent, but interdependent so they will have the courage to act on their own and they will not be afraid to ask for help.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/natural_parenting/106023 (396 words)

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