Queensland, Australia: Kids Fail New All-day Kindergarten. When the 3 half-day per week program for 5 yr olds was dropped for 5 full days per week, many kids failed the program or grade according to data found in a Freedom…
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Real Debate Needed: BC Government announces $144 million MORE for all-day K capital costs. Listen to a discussion about all-day Kindergarten on BC's top current affairs radio show, CKNW's Bill Good Show, where 9 out of 10 callers are against…
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Kids First discusses all-day Kindergarten on the CKNW Bill Good Show (Go to August 30, 9:00 am. The discussion starts at minute 32. Helen Ward of Kids First is on at minute 40.)
Sept 7, 2010—CBC interview on BC Almanac on all-day Kindergarten with Paul Kershaw of HELP and Helen Ward of Kids First. Kershaw crticizes Ward because she "doesn't have a PhD" and says all-day K has "potential, IF..." (Go to minute…
Nov 2010—A Swede speaks out on negative outcomes of government daycare policy
CKNW Bill Good Show interview on "work-life balance" Dec 10, 2010. Go to Dec 10, 2010, 10 am, minute 32, then 43:30 (Kids First calls in), then 55. Paul Kershaw, HELP's childless sociologist… says Helen Ward of Kids First spreads…
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Dec 2010: Vancouver Co-op Radio Interview with Kids First on Raising Kids in Capitalism. See Dec 15, 2010, 1 pm
Why are our kids obsessed with things, shopping & media? Watch Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood. In the 1980s, government wiped out laws that limited advertising to children. Now from birth kids are drowning in marketing scientifically designed to attach…
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Kids First on the Roy Green Show. Sunday Jan 16, 2011. A discussion of the Senate "spanking" Bill, OECD, "shared responsibility" between the state and parents and school awards. Go to Jan 16, 12 pm. Listen to segments with the…
Feb 1, 2011 interview on Roadkill radio on violation of privacy and parental consent, UBC's HELP, the EDI and data linkage
June 26, 2011: Helen Ward in a panel discussion on Corus radio's Roy Green Show on the role of parents in the Vancouver riot. Listen to "The me, me, me generation" podcast
Sweden is "the model" state for (anti-) family policy in all "developed nations" according to the OECD. Canada is pursuing this model. Jonas Himmelstrand of Sweden, interviewed here, a homeschooling father of 3, went into exile recently following massive fines…
May 2012: "Generation Boomerang," a CBC Doc zone video on adult offspring living with parents
