A new study, commissioned by the National Union of Teachers and carried out by Cambridge University found that classroom discipline is deteriorating because primary school children are spoilt and used to getting their own way.

They throw tantrums during lessons making life very hard for teachers who have to deal with 30 children at a time.

Their problematic actions are being fuelled by growing exposure to television, computers and video games, as well as spending too long in baby bouncers and strapped into buggies and cots which damages children's natural development, the report claims..

More recently the incoming president of NASWUT, Amanda Haehner, described a Little Prince and Princess culture, where children who are used to gettingtheir own way at home would not adhere to rules at school. She said that parents are too lazy or busy to take the time to create proper boundaries which children so need in order to fit in at school and in later life.

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