Thank you from Jheelpur Slum

I would like to share photos and thanks from ARBAN for the clothes M passed to them for the people of Jheelpur slum on his last visit in May.

Thank you to everyone who donated clothes; people were extremely generous, handing me huge bags of beautiful clothes. I hope you will think from these photos that they are being put [...]

Why Children Need Risk

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 [...]