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I have been writing recently about why children need risk. In The Sunday Times (4 July 2010) there was an article about an interesting aspect of this. Two parents had decided to let their children, aged 8 and 5, cycle to school alone. They live in Dulwich. They were cycling along pavements and only crossed one road, with [...] My last two columns for Nursery World have been about why children need to experience risky and challenging play. In January 2010 I went to a seminar about the importance of adventurous play at the Nursery World Show. The speaker, Helen Tovey, explained the theory; if children are not exposed to risk, they cannot learn how to [...] I recently posted about categories of mums including ”competitive” mums. Naively I wondered why mums were getting so stressed about the achievements of their young children. Then I read a letter in Nursery World describing how a private prep school sends a 24 page document to parents of children joining its reception class stating that before [...] This week I read a great post from blogger Plan B in response to an article by Lucy Cavendish in The Observer. LC was writing about the “battle” between mums who parent in different ways and Plan B countered that she’d never experienced anything like this in the blogging community. As part of this discussion, blogger Deer [...] Researching for my new column (sorry, I couldn’t resist mentioning it, I’m so excited. It’s in Nursery World and the first instalment is published this week, my copy arrived today!) I found an interesting article called Trying their Hardest, about a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation called Parenting in Ordinary Families: Diversity, complexity and [...] In The Times of Tuesday 5 January 2010, Anna Shepard wrote an article entitled Keep calm and carry on. It discussed the benefits of carrying your baby in a sling, especially for fathers. I certainly don’t object to this, but I did feel there were disparaging comments about mothers who put young babies in prams. [...] |
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