Enough to drive you up the wall?

Press, 15 February 1982, Page 10

Enough to drive you up the wall?

“You and Your Child" is a series of five-minute programmes, screening each week-day, on One, which examine the needs of young children and their parents. This week the programmes deal with annoying behaviour. First up is "Writing On Walls.”

Producer Keith TylerSmith says that “You and Your Child" is aimed at “parents” rather than at “mothers” since, through unemployment, shift work and increased house-husbanding, many more fathers are now at home with their children.

The presenter of the programme is Oily Ohlson, who also presents the afternoon children’s package "After School.”

“Oily is genuinely interested in children,” says

Mr Tyler-Smith. “He's interested in their total development and I wanted to get away from the message that raising children is women’s work.

“Oily also cuts across that traditional . image of a middle-aged, middle-class, white, woman expert. He’s just a dad. and his job is to raise the issues and questions that parents are known to be concerned about.” ..

Mr Tyler-Smith believes that the single most important aspect of being a parent is the emotional development of the parent and the child. “That means that where parents are finding difficulties in being parents, or are having difficulties with their children. the emotional wellbeing of that relationship is under threat."