As the new academic year begins, parents are once again in the press, for all the wrong reasons. This week alone I’ve seen a story about parents sending their children to school still in nappies; a story about parents making unhealthy packed lunches; and various stories about parents sending their children to school wearing the wrong uniform or in the wrong shoes. No doubt I will see stories next week about how parents let their children spend too long on screens, how they are not reading with their children at bedtime, or how they are letting them loose on social media at the age of three. There is a palpable sense of ‘them and us’ in all this – parents are painted as the ‘enemy’, rather than as normal people just like we are.
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