You may like to sign this petition.

Petition reads:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to take urgent action to
protect infants and their parents from television programmes that
promote outdated and discredited parenting theories.

TV broadcasters seem unable to embrace current knowledge of early brain
development and how babies form secure attachments.

Channel 4’s Bringing Up Baby explores three different parenting styles,
most worryingly, Truby King. The programme showed seriously distressed
infants, and sobbing parents being told to neglect their new baby as
part of a routine (“it will soon stop”). It felt close to viewing child
abuse. It is neglectful in 2007 to advise a new parent to bring baby
home from hospital, shut them in their room at 7.00pm and leave them to cry.

The Children's Project, Unite/CPHVA and others wrote to Channel 4 /
Silver River Productions. They refused to say who their experts are, yet
feel confident they are protecting the best interests of infants.

BBC's Baby Borrowers removes infants from their parents so that
teenagers can pretend to be parents. They too don’t see anything wrong.

This being the case, there is either an ignorance of the emotional needs
of children, or no will to embrace current thinking. Whichever it is,
there is an urgent need to regulate how babies and children (and their
parents) can be portrayed in the media.


Link to sign:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/parentingshows/



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Jenn
UK Mum to L 01/99, M 04/02, J 05/04, & A 11/06