News
All the information that I place on the Alliance website is there to make it available for advocates of children’s wellbeing, so they are easily able to access any information they may need. If you use this service, it would be helpful if you acknowledged the Alliance for Childhood website as your source. We would also welcome any additional information, news items or research. This is the news that came in during the last 6 months. Any older items are in the archive.
Christopher Clouder
Parents are forgetting how to play with their children, study shows
Thursday 26. of August 2010By: Amelia Hill
Family games becoming 'lost art' as survey cites overwork, boredom and generation gap
Babies don't suffer when mothers return to work, study reveals
Sunday 01. of August 2010By: # Tracy McVeigh and Anushka Asthana
• Findings overturn earlier research on working mothers
• Gains of being in employment outweigh disadvantages
A fifth of children have no idea where they live - because they no longer walk to school
Tuesday 15. of June 2010By: Tamara Cohen
Being ferried around in the car by their parents has destroyed their local awareness and knowledge, a survey has found.
Are playgrounds too safe?
Thursday 20. of May 2010By: The Mommy Files
My daughter recently banged her head against a wooden post while playing on the rings at San Francisco's Dolores Park. The thud from the hit was so loud that I practically grabbed my cell phone to call 911 before even running...
Many parents failing to read to children, survey shows
Friday 30. of April 2010By: Rachel Williams
More than half of primary teachers say they have seen at least one child with no experience of being told stories at home
Children today 'have less freedom than previous generations'
Wednesday 28. of April 2010By: Matthew Moore
Children today have less freedom than previous generations, as risk-averse parents make them wait two years longer than they did to go outside on their own.
Parental Involvement
Wednesday 14. of April 2010By: by Sally Goddard-Blythe
an essential ingredient of child well being