Two generations ago, I’d have read that Kindies need more male teachers
(August 23) and asked, why? Because naturally and historically, in
our culture children up to the age of five have needed only female ‘teachers’ - their
mothers.
Now I ask whether early childhood education (ECE) might be partly the
author of its own misfortune. Economic and
ideological pressures on women to find paid work and pass that teaching role on
to ECE must contribute to the stress which results in the breakdown of parental
relationships and men abandoning their role as fathers.
‘Children under 5
learning about gender stereotypes’ has a subtext which to me reads as children learning values which may be quite alien to those of their parents.
It’s a warped society which in effect forces men out of their homes and
away from their children and wants to pay other men to be their ‘fathers’.
What’s needed is not political support so much as moral support for parents, the kind
of moral support which comes only from friendship with Christ. .
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