RENOWNED physician, journalist and broadcaster, Dr Norman Swan was the featured author at last Tuesday’s (August 20) Outspoken Maleny event.
Dr Swan was speaking to Steven Lang about his new book ‘So You Want to Know What’s Good for Your Kids?’, which Dr Swan explained was not about providing advice – only well-researched evidence, allowing parents to make their own decisions.
“There has never been a harder time to be a parent,” Dr Swan said. “Parents face challenges no other generation have – balancing all the pressures of modern life alongside new elements such as the rise in screen use. “They are also being swamped by a tsunami of misinformation, coming at them from every side.”
He did have one bit of advice to offer to parents.
“Be kind to yourselves,” Dr Swan said.
“There has never been and never will be a perfect parent or a perfect child, and no child under 13 needs to be looking at a screen!”
