Encouraging risk-taking in children may reduce the prevalence of childhood anxiety
9 January 2018
A new international study suggests that parents who employ challenging parent behavioural (CPB)…
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BBC launches site promoting digital skills for children
9 January 2018
The new site Own It provides questions, answers and tools to help children…
Read more »The Right Brain Develops First ~ Why Play is the Foundation for Academic Learning
5 January 2018
Did you know that the right brain develops first? It does so by the time…
Read more »Doing Something Creative Can Boost Your Well-Being
5 January 2018
A study suggests that small acts of creativity in everyday life increase our…
Read more »Why spending time outdoors could help your child’s eyesight
4 January 2018
Kids seem to spend endless hours on smartphones, games consoles, computers and tablets…
Read more »Want successful kids? Let them play.
29 December 2017
Overprotective parenting is destroying kids’ chances at success in life. Lenore Skenazy has…
Read more »Freedom to Play – Changing the Conversation
21 December 2017
In a recent survey, carried out in the context of Scotland’s Play Strategy,…
Read more »Turning childhood into a mental illness
21 December 2017
Since I started studying childhood and parenting a few years back, I have…
Read more »The childhood gift we always wanted – would it change our lives today?
20 December 2017
As a child you are mostly powerless, but a letter to Father Christmas…
Read more »8 Reasons Why Kids Should Play Outside In Winter
19 December 2017
Children who spend time outdoors tend to run around more, as well as…
Read more »The Language of Play ~ Empowering Words for a Creative World
14 December 2017
Imagine you are having a team meeting to introduce a new project. Your…
Read more »Cut out smoking at playgrounds and school gates, says Children’s Commissioner Bruce Adamson as he backs Ash Scotland charter
12 December 2017
SCOTLAND’S children’s commissioner has backed calls for councils to discourage smoking in areas…
Read more »Can the return of wet play stop our kids obsession with screens?
12 December 2017
As any parent can attest, the battle to prise children away from the…
Read more »‘Lost words’ as children stay indoors, BBC News
6 December 2017
Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris spoke to BBC Newsnight about their book The…
Read more »11 barriers that prevent kids from playing outside
4 December 2017
The Wild Network compiled the following list in hopes that we can overcome…
Read more »Rail company bans device targeting youths
30 November 2017
The main train operating company in Scotland has banned the use of controversial…
Read more »One in five children in Scotland lives in poverty
30 November 2017
One fifth of children in Scotland live in families that are in poverty…
Read more »Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago, The Economist
30 November 2017
Parents these days spend a lot more time with their offspring, or at…
Read more »What Happens to Creativity as We Age?
24 November 2017
One day not long ago, Augie, a 4-year-old Gopnik grandchild, heard his grandfather…
Read more »Little Miss Inventor joins Mr Men and Little Miss line-up
24 November 2017
A new character is joining the Mr Men and Little Miss series –…
Read more »10-year-old children now so fat they need hip replacements, figures show
24 November 2017
Surgeons are performing hip replacements on children as young as ten because of…
Read more »Scottish government crackdown on unhealthy food offers, BBC News
27 October 2017
The promotion of food and drink high in fat, sugar and salt is…
Read more »SNP plan to tackle Scotland’s obesity crisis by restricting supermarket offers and restaurant meal sizes
27 October 2017
Supermarket price promotions on junk food are to be restricted and restaurant meal…
Read more »Free play and children’s mental health, Dr David Whitebread
27 October 2017
The growing crisis in children’s mental health in the UK is widely recognised….
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