parenting culture

Childhood in coalfield communities from c. 1945 onwards

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By Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson “I can remember my mother just being there, and sewing and cutting things out, and I used to be with her, sometimes I remember sitting, like, by the fireplace with my sister making rag mats and – and things like that, but I can’t remember really being really involved …

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Changing parenting, changing childhood?

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By Charlotte Faircloth “In retrospect, and from the vantage point of watching my younger friends and colleagues with their children today, my parenting style seems, if not neglectful, certainly a mite casual” Quote: Margaret K. Nelson. Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times, 2010. Photograph: Deniz Arzuk, 2014, stock image from Hürriyet newspaper, …

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