Posts by Julie Fairey
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Is this the stress of wondering where their next dose of "parental correction" is coming from?
Yes I would quite like to see a panel discussion between Bailey and Sigman about the role of shaking in best practice parenting.
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In regard to Judy Bailey's star turn at the Family First conference - the work she is doing for the Brainwave Trust seems to be linked to Simon Rowley's research on the effects of stress on young children. Basically he's a paedeatrician (sp?) who has found that levels of cortisol (iirc) increase significantly in the brains of children under stress, and this has negative impacts of brain development. The hook for Family First is that some people have then gone on to equate being in an early childhood centre with stress for young children, although stress is actually low in quality centres, particularly with low child:adult ratios, qualified staff and a low turn over of staff (which allows children to build permanent relationships and thus minimise stress and attachment issues).
Family First's line is that mothers should stay home with their children until they go to school, and they claim that the research around stress in ECE settings backs them up. Judy Bailey did a big cover story in the NZ version of the Australian Women's Weekly about this sometime last year I think. What she actually has to say, and my understanding of Rowley's research, is not as black and white as Family First would probably like, but that won't stop them using it to legitimise their "traditional family values" agenda, which is really more about undermining women.
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Thanks for this post. Have you seen this:
Ministerial Advisory Committee head resigns over PEDA issue -
Sadface. Love your work Mr Slack.
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But does he believe in magic ponies?
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(Isn't Sacha a boy?)
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Sacha if I didn't know you were being sarky I might cry.
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Craig I think you can colour me serious, I stood for the Alliance in two elections and was an active member of the party for seven years. One of my key reasons for doing so was their commitment to a progressive taxation system. Plus I'm currently in the top tax bracket.
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Plus the "cash reimbursement for unused staffing" for schools appears to be an incentive to increase class sizes.
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I cannot believe how dishonest they have been about the early childhood education cuts. They're trying to say that the 20 Hours ECE scheme remains untouched, but for almost half the services they have cut the funding rates for the 20 Hours scheme from at least $11.42 per child per hour to a max of $10.88 per child per hour. And centres cannot recoup this loss (and cover any increased costs) through increasing parent fees as it remains illegal to charge fees to children accessing ECE under the 20 Hours scheme.