UK Children Are Well Rounded

News came last week that children in Britain are well rounded. UK children were the big fat bottom of an international league table of child well-being produced by UNICEF. Our kids are fat, fourteen and fed up, it seems. And all weighed in with their proscriptions of how to drag them by the ear'ole further up the table of results for next time. Howard Jacobson as ever makes some pertinent observations on the subject...

"It confirms what we have all been saying for decades: that lax parenting doesn't work; that strict parenting doesn't work; that schools don't expect enough of our children; that schools expect too much of our children; that our society is too ambition-driven; that our children lack ambition; that our children are rampaging hoodlums; that our children live in trembling and fear; that a two-parent family is an outdated concept; that children from one-parent families are disadvantaged; that we live in an infantilised society; that our society finds no room for children; that the child comes into the world trailing clouds of glory; that a child is a fiend hid in a cloud."

This neat summation of What The Problem Is reminds me of a quote I once read but have never since been able to locate (and so I paraphrase it and probably I have the wrong profession as the object of the quote, though it suits well here)

"a politician's job is to think up problems for their solutions"

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More culture needed
More state needed
Less media-hype needed
David Cameron needed
More Tony Blair needed
We shouldn't really give a toss