Children
Pocket money: Our children don’t have to follow in our credit crunched footsteps
Children need to understand the value of money, where it comes from and where it goes when they have spent it.
By Dr. James Lane | Notebook | Thursday, 28 June 2012 at 12:00 am
A Monster Calls: Carnegie winner Patrick Ness deals with the subject of death
A book about dying, death, bereavement and coming to terms with loss has won the 2012 Carnegie Medal.
By Susan Elkin | Arts, Notebook | Thursday, 14 June 2012 at 1:30 pm
GCSEs are a pointless waste of time
A few facts. Last year almost 70% of 16 year olds achieved at least 5 GCSE passes with grades A*-C. And 58% of GCSE sitters got 5 good passes including English and maths.
By Susan Elkin | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 29 May 2012 at 2:04 am
What can parents do to protect their children online?
Paul Woodward recently hit the headlines for speaking out against parents who allow their children to sign up to Facebook despite being underage, even threatening parents that he will report them to social services. Facebook was also in the news at the weekend as it looks as if the site could remove the current age restriction of 13 and above, potentially opening the social network to millions of children.
By Dr. James Lane | Notebook, Opinion, Science & Technology | Wednesday, 23 May 2012 at 4:00 am
Are you Mom Enough? Putting parenting choices under the microscope
Much ink has already been spilled on the recent, controversial, TIME magazine cover which features a photograph of a 26-year-old woman breastfeeding her three-year-old son. Some advocates have said that this is brilliant for the promotion of Attachment Parenting, with others saying that this sensationalizes the issue. But what does the cover – and the reactions to it – tell us about parenting culture more broadly?
By Dr. Charlotte Faircloth | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 18 May 2012 at 4:00 am
Never mind Blue Peter. Should kids watch TV at all?
Let me put my cards on the table. I am firmly in the camp which believes that television damages children and that the less they see the better.
By Susan Elkin | Arts, Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 3:12 pm
Reviewing skills should be taught in English lessons
The best possible training for any sort of writing is to read as many examples of the genre written by experienced people as you can. That way you absorb the conventions and possible approaches. You won’t write, say, a decent novel, play or poem unless you’ve read plenty of novels, plays or poems. And exactly the same principle applies to theatre reviewing.
By Susan Elkin | Arts, Opinion | Tuesday, 15 May 2012 at 9:57 am
Refugees and scarce resources: A humanitarian crisis in West Africa
Drought in the Sahel region of West Africa is fast becoming a humanitarian crisis; Henry Makiwa travels to Burkina Faso to see how the lack of rain and an influx of refugees have affected the country.
By Henry Makiwa | Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 15 May 2012 at 3:55 am
Nearly one in four people experienced sexual abuse as a child. Why is this swept under the carpet?
A predominant focus in the recent case of the sex gang found guilty of abusing teenagers in Manchester was on “Asian men” preying on “vulnerable white girls”. Yet last month, the alarming statistic from the NSPCC that a child is subjected to a sex crime every twenty minutes in the UK went shockingly under-reported, in one tabloid relegated to a tiny box on page twelve, as if it wasn’t even worthy of being considered news.
By Anna Nathanson | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 14 May 2012 at 10:16 am
Let’s hear it for children’s non-fiction
Children’s non-fiction, or “Educational Writing”, is often seen as the poor cousin of children’s fiction (unless, of course, you’re Terry Deary) – it’s time we started paying it better attention.
By Susan Elkin | Notebook | Friday, 4 May 2012 at 12:00 am
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