Children should learn mainly through play until age of eight, says Lego
15 March 2016
Parents are squeezing the role of play out of their children’s lives in…
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‘Play Freely at Your Own Risk’
15 March 2016
A history of adventure playgrounds, which offer children the opportunity for no-rules recreation….
Read more »Attitude shift needed to encourage outdoor play
14 March 2016
Outdoor nurseries are giving children better learning outcomes, according to new Care Inspectorate…
Read more »Comment: ‘It’s important for children to learn to be cold, wet, and survive that’
11 March 2016
Teacher Jane Williams-Siegfredsen was at first shocked and fascinated by Denmark’s forest kindergartens….
Read more »India Knight: British children are too sad
11 March 2016
Our children are among the unhappiest in the world. But here’s how to…
Read more »City children being sold short over the right to play
1 February 2016
CHILDREN in urban areas across Scotland are being sold short because local authorities…
Read more »Forest Schools: Education as Nature Intended
1 February 2016
If you think today’s children spend too much time indoors, you’re not alone….
Read more »Time spent online ‘overtakes TV’ among youngsters
26 January 2016
Young people are spending more time online than watching television for the first…
Read more »Generation of sad and lonely children: Social media ‘triggering plague of low self-esteem’
7 January 2016
Children are plagued by loneliness and low self-esteem due to the pressures of…
Read more »Reading, writing and mud: the growth of Forest Schools
9 December 2015
Becky Dickinson visits a Forest School and examines how the Scandinavian approach to…
Read more »Risk is essential to childhood – as are scrapes, grazes, falls and panic
4 November 2015
Children need to be exposed to risky play. For ‘helicopter parents’, this might…
Read more »The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Guide for Children & Young People
29 October 2015
The UNCRC Booklet is aimed at children and young people under the age…
Read more »‘Ignorance about Vitamin D’ as rickets cases soar
26 October 2015
More than a third of mothers do not know the health benefits of…
Read more »Tick-box policy won’t raise free-range kids
22 October 2015
A new report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on ‘a fit and healthy…
Read more »After the school day in Finland, play and more play
20 October 2015
Children in the after-school program in Helsinki’s Katajanokka Comprehensive School play in the…
Read more »Tablet computers ‘widely used by under-fives’
20 October 2015
In families which own tablet computers, almost a third of children aged under…
Read more »The primary school that makes every pupil run a MILE a day in drive to cut childhood obesity
29 September 2015
A primary school is making all children run a ‘daily mile’ in a…
Read more »Helicopter Parenting – Why You Need to Let Your Children Be Free
24 September 2015
While constantly hovering over your kids might seem like deep love and natural…
Read more »Play: the building blocks of lifelong learning for children
24 September 2015
Singing songs. Painting pictures. Building with colourful bricks. These activities that sound like…
Read more »Doctors fears for Scottish child health timebomb
24 September 2015
Doctors last night expressed alarm at new figures showing that only 14 per…
Read more »How far is too far when it comes to advertising to children?
17 September 2015
Does advertising to children infringe their rights? On the surface, it sounds rather…
Read more »Outdoor play ‘good for the eyes’
16 September 2015
Getting children to play outside for 40 minutes a day could be a…
Read more »Waking for social media leaves pupils ‘always tired’
15 September 2015
More than one out of every three 12 to 15-year-olds wakes in the…
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