Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance

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With endless column inches about violence, underage sex and obesity it would be easy to believe today’s kids are a lost generation. Many parents feel that they’re doing a worse job than their own parents and some even believe that they’re failing their kids.

But are they?

Jo Frost believes she needs to get parents talking again and sharing what they know. Fifty years ago advice about raising children was simple: for the most part people just followed what their own parents had done, or they looked to a friend or neighbour for advice. But nowadays parents seem to have lost their confidence, silently suffering from the same doubts and insecurities behind closed doors.

Through a series of case studies and exciting experiments Jo is setting out to prove everyone has it in them to be good parents: they just need to get talking again.

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