Some ideas just shouldn't make it out of the brainstorming meeting – and many of us would argue that that is the case with the Channel 4 TV programme, 'Train Your Baby Like a Dog', due to air tomorrow evening (20 August).
As I write, Twitter is deluged with early years people voicing their outrage about the show, and a petition calling for it to be axed has been signed by thousands of people.
Really, there is so much wrong with this concept, which probably sounded like a surefire ratings success and twist on the usual child behaviour programmes – hey, let's get a dog trainer to use their methods on unruly toddlers!
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