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Photo: IAN JONES The study by the National Literacy Trust suggested a link between regular access to books outside school and high test scores. Almost nine-in-10 pupils now have a mobile compared with fewer than three-quarters who have their own books in the home, it was disclosed. Children ‘more likely to own a mobile phone than a book’ – [ continue reading Children ‘more likely to own a mobile phone than a book’ – Telegraph ] 28 May 2010
 |  | category: can't make it up!, daren't parent, family, the state we're in  | comments are closed  It’s exam time folks and we have some advice for all you teen social-media addicts out there. GIVE IT UP AND MATRICULATE LIKE IT MATTERS 29 April 2010
| | category: Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, daren't parent, facebook | comments are closed The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Enlarge This Image Ruby Washington/The New York Times “At night, I can text or watch something on YouTube until I fall asleep,” Francisco Sepulveda, 14, said of his smart phone. Multimedia Graphic Raised on Screens Those ages 8 to 18 spend more than seven and a [ continue reading If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online ] 20 January 2010
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“Blundering interventions into family life, like lunchbox inspections, undermine this special bond. Suddenly, even from an early age, children are told that parents are not the best people to protect their interests; apparently that job should fall to the state instead. When a child is given a letter to take home from school for having brought in the wrong food – or even sent home themselves in disgrace – that child is being told that mum and dad are an embarrassing failure. Schools, which should be concentrating on providing a stimulating education, are forced into battle with parents [ continue reading Put the lunch police back in their box ] a velocipede with armbands!
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…and what do the young people see parents, teachers and admin-staff eating? Have you seen the size of many teachers and school admin staff? Have you seen the cakes, chips and kebabs taken to staff-rooms at lunchtime? The tins of Quality Street and boxes of Roses in the school office. At every school function school-raffles mean head-teachers hand bottles of wine and scotch to staff and parents and boxes of chocolates are everywhere in front of the same kids humiliated in every lunchtime stop & search. Witness the amount of kids walking to school [ continue reading “Junk food fills children’s lunchboxes” – SO WHAT! ] 12 January 2010
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“Sedentary lifestyles are making children less fit – even among those who are not obese, a study suggests. Essex University staged fitness tests on 600 10-year-olds a decade apart in an area with low levels of obesity. They found significant falls in fitness levels, concluding the average 10-year-old in 1998 could beat 95% of youngsters in 2008 in running tests.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> BBC News – Child fitness levels ‘declining even in affluent areas’: .) Parents who allow their children alcohol at home may be increasing the chances of future drinking problems, says England’s chief medical officer. Sir Liam Donaldson accused some parents of a “laissez-faire” approach and said letting children taste alcohol to ready them for adulthood was “misguided”. “It is a major public health problem. Alcohol has a ruinous effect on the foundations of adult life. We see the tyranny of alcohol in our towns and city centres and too often childhood is robbed of its clear-eyed innocence and replaced with a befuddled futility that comes with the availability of dirt-cheap alcohol,” [ continue reading BBC News – Parents who let children drink ‘fuel binge drinking’ ] rice pudding: 4tbs rice 3tbs caster sugar ‘knob’ of butter 2 pints of milk (full fat) 2 hours in oven pancakes: 8oz flour 1 pint milk 2 eggs pinch salt 1 hour standing before use stage 1: believes in Santa stage 2: does not believe in Santa stage 3: is Santa stage 4: plans to ring up to see if Santa came
“Children are being banned from paddling in water during school trips under new health and safety guidelines.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> Telegraph News | UK News No paddling on school trips children told: .)
“Students who are too embarrassed to play sport in front of their peers, have been given the option of exercise-based computer games instead.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> the Mail online | Home School PE lesson that has turned into a Wii class: .) THIS IS MADNESS? “The idea of the state training its young people to be incredibly tough, and incredibly obedient, has appealed to philosophers through the ages. Plato far preferred the discipline and conservatism of Sparta to the restless innovation of Athens. He took the idea of the state being solely responsible for the upbringing of youths and used it in his Republic. Rousseau, the father of totalitarianism, was another big fan. So was Hitler – he saw Sparta as the first ‘volkish’ nation, and praised its eugenics programme.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> The Politics of [ continue reading This is….Sparta! ] What is it like being 13? – trust TIME to have someone who knows.
“More than 1000 four and fiveyearolds were suspended from school for bad behaviour last year figures suggest.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> Telegraph News | UK News More than 1000 reception pupils suspended from school: .) Where next for the new generation? “‘the only people talking about values in the education system are sports coaches’ Young men are growing up without being taught the values that fathers traditionally pass on, such as learning how to follow a career, learning to take risks in the world, learning how to compete, including learning how to cope with failure. These skills are also absent from the feminised values of our education system, which instead focuses on teaching empathy, emotional literacy, tolerance, non-competition – which is all important, but misses out alot. So we’re leaving young people, particularly young [ continue reading How To Be Good ]
“An antismoking advert by the Department of Health could frighten or distress young children because it preyed on their fears by suggesting their parents might die the advertising watchdog has ruled.” (Via Telegraph News | UK News Antismoking ads can’t be shown before 7:30pm: .) The state of children’s television programming is dire beyond belief! “It’s oil doyn to the hortt rorrds noy” “Though they vary in the number of screams and explosions, mental age of celebs and so forth, these programmes share the key CBBC credo that its output should not merely flatter children, but where the adult world intrudes, present it as demonstrably boring and inferior. In fact, there seems little point in parents complying with Dr Carol Craig’s advice to stop over-praising children; not while the cultivation of collective juvenile narcissism continues to be a central plank in CBBC’s self-designated charter.” [ continue reading The BBC has become the weakest link in children’s TV ]
“From the Free Range Kids blog, the story of Lori from a small town in Mississippi, who sent her 10-year-old on foot to soccer practice, only to have him picked up by the cops, who reported ‘hundreds’ of 911 calls by curtain-twitchers who were horrified at the thought of a 10-year-old walking a third of a mile to a local school. The cops told her she could be charged with child endangerment! After she complained to the cops, the local police chief called her to apologize and to reassure her that she lived in a safe neighborhood. The [ continue reading Kid walks to soccer, neighbors call the cops ] This year’s must have accessory! For years it was putting them in more Boden, Vans and Quicksilver apparel than the neighbours could afford. All the while the little sods kicked lumps out of the parents and now everyone is surprised to find a sullen weed-dealing berk excluded from school who sits in his room watching ‘skins’ for more hints from the slackers’ bible. At least with the girls it’s just eating disorders and an evening’s WKDs stomach-pumped at the A&E. There are screeds of words given over to explaining or ‘understanding’ Ms Myerson everywhere at the moment but this [ continue reading They f*** you up, your kids (spiked and the misery Mum-oir’) ] |
 
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