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Speaker 1: Oh look, I'm not that old, but I'm part of

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Speaker 1: a generation that grew up pre cell phones. Grew up

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Speaker 1: at a time where presents were usually clothing that you needed.

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Speaker 1: Toys were chatterings, marbles, maybe a skateboard if you were

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Speaker 1: really lucky. There was no picky eating. Did you hear

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Speaker 1: about this last week? If you didn't finish what was

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Speaker 1: on your plate at dinner, you didn't get a treat afterwards,

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Speaker 1: and treats were usually fruit or a RaRo sachet if

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Speaker 1: you managed to sneak one out of the pantry. There

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Speaker 1: were no snacks. If you were hungry before dinner, Mum

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Speaker 1: would say, drink a glass of water. Goodness, mate. School

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Speaker 1: was basic. It was math, reading, writing, a bit of

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Speaker 1: everything else. What we're learning as a society is that

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Speaker 1: where collectively we have taken our eye off the ball,

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Speaker 1: we've taken parenting to a level beyond usefulness. Do we

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Speaker 1: need cheap, imported asbestos sand to engage toddlers, No we don't.

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Speaker 1: Do we need one thousand fun school subjects in place

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Speaker 1: of decent time on basic ones, No we don't. Do

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Speaker 1: we need to tiptoe around kids not eating their veggies,

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Speaker 1: as was suggested, yesterday for fear that they may develop

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Speaker 1: some kind of eating disorder. No we don't do they

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Speaker 1: all need cell phones that helicopter parents message constantly while

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Speaker 1: their kids should be learning at school. No we don't.

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Speaker 1: We didn't then and we don't now. And the results

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Speaker 1: speak for themselves. The Aussies abandoning social media cell phone

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Speaker 1: bands in schools here are working. According to those results, yesterday,

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Speaker 1: students forced to do an hour of good old fashioned

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Speaker 1: maths a day made a full year's progress in just

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Speaker 1: twelve weeks. Kids are fatter than ever because of what

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Speaker 1: we're feeding them, so the meal time passive parenting thing

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Speaker 1: clearly ain't working. The good news is that it's not

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Speaker 1: too late to turn all this around. Frankly, parents and

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Speaker 1: teachers are the ones who need to grow up and

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Speaker 1: show leadership here, not the kids. The kids will follow

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Speaker 1: the lead. And the best news of all is that

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Speaker 1: most of this stuff is easier and cheaper. We've set

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Speaker 1: expectations too high, boundaries too low, and our kids are

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Speaker 1: paying the price. For more from Early edition with Ryan Bridge.

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