Fifth of millennium babies ‘obese’ by age of 11
27 November 2014
One in five children born at the start of the millennium was obese…
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Will colouring-in books become the new craze for grown-ups?
27 November 2014
Children can spend many hours happily colouring-in pictures, taking care not to go…
Read more »Has the imagination disappeared from Lego?
26 November 2014
The Brick 2014 show for Lego enthusiasts is about to take place in…
Read more »State of Childrens Rights in Scotland 2014 Report
24 November 2014
The 2014 report will be the last before Scotland reports to the UN…
Read more »Play Scotland Competition Time
20 November 2014
20th November 2014 marked 25 years since the adoption of the UN Convention…
Read more »Tips for sharing books with children with Additional Support Needs
19 November 2014
Many of the following ideas have been suggested by experts and parents across…
Read more »Children’s doctors urge national 20mph limit in built-up areas
19 November 2014
The national speed limit in built-up areas should be cut to 20mph to…
Read more »Have We Forgotten How to Play?
19 November 2014
Because of work-related changes in my life, my schedule has changed drastically. I…
Read more »One in three Scottish school pupils has been bullied in the past year
19 November 2014
Nearly one in three pupils at Scottish schools have been bullied in the last…
Read more »6 things we learned about connecting kids with nature
17 November 2014
Why should we help children connect to the natural world? And how can…
Read more »Retro Scotland: 11 old pictures of 80 years of child’s play
17 November 2014
THE summer holidays are well and truly over, and the kids are back…
Read more »Have the Danes cracked childhood obesity? BBC News
14 November 2014
Childhood obesity has become a global epidemic, but it is not easy to…
Read more »New practical tool challenges the cotton wool culture
13 November 2014
New practical tool challenges the cotton wool culture and paves the way for…
Read more »We need to plan better for precious years of childhood
11 November 2014
I can remember how my mother would sigh when we passed the local…
Read more »Quentin Blake: We need more disabled children in picture books
11 November 2014
As he launches his latest book, Sir Quentin Blake says there should be…
Read more »Let the Children Play! – Why Children Should Be Playing Outside This Winter
11 November 2014
The millennials generation are the first to grow up with computer technology at…
Read more »Children ‘prefer to play outdoors than watch TV’
29 October 2014
Children would rather be playing outdoors than watching television, but parents’ concerns keep…
Read more »Play out? Only in the garden: Over-anxious parents are barring children from going into the park or streets because of safety fears
29 October 2014
Most children prefer to play outside rather than watch television but they are…
Read more »One in four British children in poverty – Unicef
29 October 2014
The number of UK children living in poverty has increased to more than…
Read more »Children ‘prefer to play outdoors than watch TV’
29 October 2014
Children would rather be playing outdoors than watching television, but parents’ concerns keep…
Read more »Later sunsets ‘increase children’s activity levels’ BBC
24 October 2014
Moving the clocks forward by one extra hour all year in the UK…
Read more »Cotton wool kids at risk of becoming mentally fragile
22 October 2014
Wrapping kids in cotton wool is creating a generation of “psychologically fragile’’ children,…
Read more »Free-Range Childhood
6 October 2014
When he coined the phrase nature-deficit disorder in his bestselling Last Child in…
Read more »Disabled children’s behaviour ‘deteriorates at school’, BBC News
3 October 2014
The behaviour of children with disabilities and learning difficulties often worsens when they…
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