What’s next then?
Would it be okay to legislate that every parent submits a food diary for their children each week to ensure they are meeting the determined five a day?
How about setting up webcams to check that children are only watching pre-approved TV shows for their age group?
And wiring every newborn up with a pedometer so that readouts of their exercise levels are monitored?
Bedtimes? Should there be some sort of graded age appropriate keystage bedtime for all children? With buzzers somewhere to alert a swat team if children are still awake after a certain time?
How about keeping it ‘fun’ and issuing every parent, along with their bounty pack a sticker chart to start with their baby once they get it home? It could slide into the red book and be filled out by all the various people that child would come into contact with during their apprenticeship to becomming a taxpayer, sorry childhood. It could cover behaviour, diet, health - be divided into goals appropriate to achieving those all important outcomes in the every child matters list.
Gina Ford could be commissioned to write ‘Contented little baby and beyond’ type books. We could use binding to keep any children who looked like bolting to be too tall at the required height. We could use racks to stretch anyone not measuring up.
Would any of these things be okay? Would every parent willingly hand over their parenting in such a way? I think, well I hope not.
I hope that it isn’t just those of us who currently choose to Home Educate who therefore stand alongside us and fight against this huge threat to our freedom, our rights to parent our own children and our future.
