Richard Glover - How To Ruin A Child
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6pm for 6.30pm Monday 19th OctoberBehind every generation of Australian mothers and fathers has stood an army of advisors - magazine columnists, expert authors, nurses, priests and government agencies. Most of those experts were very certain about their own rules. Any deviation would produce a dire result: you'd ruin a child.
Yet, over time, the advice kept changing. Each generation was told that the last generation had it all wrong. How peculiar that most of the experts did not have children of their own.
And, for the current generation of parents, history offers a consolation. When relatives, and other critics, tell young parents that they are 'doing it all wrong', and that different (usually stricter) methods would make everything go smoothly, the experience of Australian parents over time is wonderfully reassuring.
Parenting is tough, however you do it, and the outcome, however you get there, is usually a perfectly fine human.
Richard Glover hosted the Drive show on ABC Radio Sydney for 26 years, until his retirement in 2025. He has written regularly for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Washington Post and for many years, presented the comedy program Thank God It’s Friday on ABC local radio. He has written several bestselling books, including The Land Before Avocado, Flesh Wounds and Love, Clancy.
Date
Monday 19 October 2026 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (UTC+10)Location
Upstairs at Gleebooks
49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe NSW 2037
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Richard Glover - How To Ruin A Child
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