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Status anxiety

Playground bullies and the contradiction at the heart of democracy

How can parents and teachers both maintain their authority and inspire a questioning spirit?

22 February 2014

9:00 AM

22 February 2014

9:00 AM

A new book by a Swedish psychiatrist has just come out that I like the sound of. It’s called How Children Took Power and argues that the child-centred approach to parenting that’s been popular in Scandinavia since the 1960s has created a nation of ouppfostrade, which roughly translates as ‘bad children’.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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