How relevant are ‘parenting issues’ to today’s innovation investment?
Checking out these news stories may help you decide
This brief roundup highlights topical parenting stories in fields as diverse as social services, working conditions, employment legislation, employee motivation, environmental and disability issues:
Survey shows 45% of American men wanting to be remembered as ‘environmentally friendly fathers’
‘Spiraling cost of childcare pushing families into poverty’, claims report
Shifting the blame for ‘lone parent hardship’ to ‘shirking fathers’ may prove unhelpful
Declining Japanese birthrate = increased paternity leave?
Bringing meaning and purpose to our lives may not be enough
What has changed in parenting since 1994?
Predictable frustrations that you might not have considered, lessons for the rest of us
A new book stirs an old debate
Worth upto $150 an hour?
“The study shows that 65% of American Dads (over 36 million men) agree that “when my kids are grown, I want them to remember me as teaching them to be environmentally responsible”. ” While American dads so fascinated with inculcating eco-friendliness in their children, how can American moms help environment while raising their children?
Here are 10 “things to do” for American moms who are environment concious:
http://www.squidoo.com/ten_green_tips_4moms
This is all what moms can do to help environment! I wonder if moms can do more than dads to raise their children become more environment friendly, as they spend more time with their children?
I’m having a look at the new website, it’s looking good.I’m having a look through the articles and the one on Parenting caught my eye
What does it say, Deb?
I was struck by the fact that there seems to be a “growing trend of ‘baby planners’ worth up to $150 per hour”. I wonder how necessary or helpful this actually is?’
Have you found any related articles that might help you with this issue?
Well, I first of all thought that this would be an American thing, so I’m looking round online to see if I can see any of this going on in the UK where I live
That sounds reasonable, Deb. Any results online in the UK?
Sure enough, it seems to be happening here too. I came across this article in The Sun:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/29641/Meet-the-baby-planner.html it says “The entrepreneur charges her mums-to-be £100 for an initial consultation where she’ll spend a hour and a half with them.”
It’s seems like a cross-cultural phenomenon, with cases from the US and the UK. What’s you’re assessment, Deb?
This seems to me to be an awful lot of money to pay for somebody to tell you the stuff that, traditionally, would have been advice you’d get from your Mum, aunties and big sisters.Also, when I had another look at this article in Innovation Investment Journal, I noticed that “bringing up a child costs £800 (£1200) a month” and this doesn’t surprise me if money needs to be spent on this sort of advice for parents!
I agree, and I wonder how certain individuals decided they are better off with these entrepreneurs instead of people more closely related to them!
I think in the UK, loads of people these days don’t live close to family (mostly because they move to where the jobs are) – those people would probably find it hard to get day-to-day advice from family
But I’m pretty sure friends are always there; like you said, it’s an awful lot of money to pay for someone that will probably just use big words and jargons to compensate for his/her services being provided.
It does make me wonder how parents will manage to afford this sort of advice and will this sort of service be something that’s more likely to be taken up by very busy career women rather than the average parent. Who are the people who are using these services and are they getting value for money here
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