article_snippet.sent: Parents need to keep Parents distance and trust schools and teachers instead of being 'dervishes ready to battle with anyone and anything on behalf of Parents child', a leading head teacher has said.
article_snippet.sent: Peter Tait, the headmaster of Sherborne Preparatory School in Dorset, claimed parents have become 'dervishes' about parents children's education and should take a back seat to allow parents to develop naturally.
article_snippet.sent: Writing in Attain, the magazine for the Independent Association of Prep Schools, Headmaster Peter Tait said the modern trend of interfering stemmed from parents being bombarded with information about how to raise a child.
article_snippet.sent: Parents need to keep Parents distance and use Parents intuition to trust schools and teachers, a leading head teacher has claimed.
article_snippet.sent: Headmaster Peter Tait warned that while parents naturally wanted the very best for parents children, such interference could end up hindering their children natural development, The Daily Telegraph reported.
article_snippet.sent: Headmaster Peter Tait said: 'What has made some parents put some parents own child at the centre of the universe and to hell with the rest?'
article_snippet.sent: Adding that parents must trust those responsible for parents children's education, Headmaster Peter Tait added: 'To do this requires a certain detachment, a willingness to trust the passage of time, focusing on whether parents children are happy, challenged and purposeful and are learning the right values.'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Tait is Headmaster of Sherborne Preparatory School (pictured) in Dorset, who has been writing in Attain magazine .
highlights_snippet.sent: Headmaster Peter Tait claimed parents should trust parents child's educators .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Excessive interference could harm parents children's development, Headmaster Peter Tait said .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Headmaster Peter Tait made the comments for article in preparatory school magazine Attain .