Childcare Experts Do Battle

The touching paper was lit after John Ford complained to the NSPCC that Verity's hardline attack to child care as demonstrated in her Channel 4 series Bringing Up Baby is as good as to abuse. Verity's response? To dispute her opposition to a public competition to estimate whose method is the most effective.

Both women urge the usage of modus operandis in childrearing but Verity's attack is strictly old-school, insisting that her babes are left to 'air' in the garden for respective hours and not cuddled for more than than 10 proceedings per day. So controversial is her advice that she's been asked to remain away from The Baby Show in Earl's Court yet this is the adult female who gains fees of up to £1,000 per twenty-four hours for her services.

It's her advice that a babe shouldn't be fed more than than four hourly that have made John Ford see red. 'The advice given… not to feed a bantam crying babe - could jeopardize a baby's life, particularly if it is being breastfed'.

Yet Multiple Sclerosis John Ford is no alien to contention herself. Her bestselling book advocators hard-and-fast modus operandis that have got long enraged parents who believe in a more than progressive doctrine to raising children.

Perhaps unsurprisingly the show's manufacturer Daisy Goodwin is urging the two to 'bring it on'. Which implores the question, is this a praseodymium stunt to ballyhoo the lucks of two famous person nannies? Or is there a lawsuit for echt concern over stiff and potentially obsolete childrearing techniques?

Either way, when egoes as big as these collide it certainly do for compelling viewing.