Television schedules are awash these days with programmes aimed at giving parents advice, but Channel 4's 'Bringing Up Baby' has infuriated childcare professionals and parents alike and sparked a call for an end to all such shows.
Child health experts want a body set up to regulate parenting television programmes, which they say 'experiment' on babies and children, with potentially damaging results.
As Nursery World reported last week, Clive Dorman of the Children's Project has started a petition on the 10 Downing Street website calling for a halt to programmes that promote 'outdated or discredited' parenting theories (4 October). The petition now has more than 1,900 signatures.
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