A tough choice: balancing Independence and Safety

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 [...]

A New Kyrgyz President

Today, Roza Otunbaeva has been inauguration as President of Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyzstan has had a traumatic few months. In April there was  a second revolution; President Bakiyev fled the country. In recent weeks there has been terrible violence in the southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad; thousands have fled as refugees. There is much in our news about a [...]