"... Why don't the schools just take the children full time ..."
This is what bording schools are all about. It would be interesting to see a study about the affects of young children at boarding schools.
I think part of the problems with parents and discipline is our society tells parents they should be friends with their children. So some parents don't have a vision that their role is to well parent, to provide the guidence and discipline so the child will grow up to be a functional, happy adult.
Most boarding schools are privately funded. I did read an article in the Washington Post a while back on a public boarding school. I think I'll add this link to the post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...-
2004Sep20.html
and NPR had a piece on public boarding schools as well. You can listen to it here.
Here's the link
http://www.npr.org/templates/
sto...storyId=4228881
Given that most of the UK education headlines recently have been the teachers and headteachers pointing out the myriad problems with our state education system, I hardly think there's a wealth of credibility to the suggestion that they know what's best at bedtime.
just goes to show parenting is hard work. Like all hard work, our tendency is to try to get out of it.
There are really no words because this is so sad. Parenthood is for parents.
Kate
"Four in 10 parents want schools to set bedtimes for their children because they cannot do it themselves . . ."
I'm not sure I understand this statement. What is meant by they're not able to do it themselves? My first thought is: yes, they are! It isn't that complicated: you set a bedtime and if the children disobey, you punish them. If the children don't obey the bedtimes set by parents, why do the parents expect children to obey the the bedtimes set by the schools, when the schools don't even have (yet, anyway) a physical presence in the home at night?
Ah, wouldn't our Founding Fathers be proud?
*groan*
A few years ago I read a long newspaper article about overnight daycare for children. The gist was that parents who work nights find being at home with children impossible so they have overnight daycare. The children are brought in and sleep in the daycare facility. It was deemed a need, especially for single mothers who work nights.
Something was very bothersome to me about the whole thing. Perhaps the idea that schooled children would be in school during the day and cared for others at night, then when do they see their parents?
What is happening to our society?
The article was saying the overnight day care facility was doing a booming business and that more centers with that kind of overnight care were needed in America.
Pretty soon, mothers will give birth in the schools. That way, the educational system has their grips from the very beginning.
Parents are giving up so much control. It is actually frightening.
Good grief! Whats next? I'm sure I'll read it here though.
Susan
I read a book about what it's like to grow up in a boarding school, it's called "Stand Before Your God: A Boarding-School Memoir" by Paul Watkins. Although there was very little about God, it was a very well written and interesting (in a morbid, heartbreaking kind of way) book.
Some people shouldn't have children. I just don't know what else to say.
I didn't know I was weird because I'm upset when I can't spend time with my son. I mean, I like a break now and then like everyone else... but good lord. Some people need to get some willpower. Or a spine. Or something.
My son is 3 and still doesn't sleep through the night. Does it suck that I haven't slept well in 3 years? Sure. I'll have a nice new baby in a few months to help. The more the merrier. 
You have once again inspired me! Though I must say that I desperately wanted to go to boarding school and as an adult looking back, I think it would have been a good idea. I hope I am the exception and not the rule.
If parents want to use a private boarding school, go for it. But don't ask the US taxpayer to foot the bill. That's what so unnerved me about that article.
According to Rebecca PBS is going to offer a 3 hour bedtime show to help kids wind down, with stories and songs. You know, kinda like a mom would do...
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