Japan has 'monster parents'
Image via Wikipedia 'Monster parents' plague Japan 's schools Posted: 23 March 2010 1258 hrs TOKYO - Breakfast for parents at day-care centres, laundry and nail-clipping done at school, a pick-up service by teachers -- these are some of the requests from Japan's so-called "monster parents". The increasingly outrageous demands have driven teachers' stress levels to record heights and led the Tokyo city government to publish a handbook on tips to cope with them. More than 60,000 teachers and other workers at Tokyo's public schools will get a copy by the end of March in a 10-million-yen (110,000-US-dollar) project. "There are so many," a Tokyo teacher said as she recalled complaints her elementary school has received. "A mother rings us at 7:30am and keeps nagging for two hours... One morning she was saying 'Why did you make my child speak before other children ? My child doesn't like to make a speech...'," s...