News & Links
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
How To Heal From The Impact Of Early Trauma
Friday 07. of November 2008By: ArticleDashboard.com
In order to understand the meaning of tall, we need to understand the meaning of short. To know if something is hot, we must be familiar with something cold. Likewise, good is relative to bad, wet is relative to dry, and happy is...
How can I protect my daughter in a society that sexualises children, asks Ulrika Jonsson
Thursday 06. of November 2008By: Daily Mail
A few days ago, my eight-year-old daughter Bo came home from school with a bemused expression on her face. One of her friends was hosting a makeover party.
Obesity crisis worsens as British pupils become too heavy for their school chairs
Wednesday 05. of November 2008By: Daily Mail
Schools need to buy bigger desks and chairs because children are getting too fat for furniture used in most classrooms, according to former Cabinet minister Charles Clarke.
Sexually charged shows such as Sex And The City and Friends to blame for rise in teenage pregnancy
Tuesday 04. of November 2008By: Daily Mail
Teenage girls who watch a lot of TV shows with a high sexual content are twice as likely to become pregnant, a study said yesterday.
Classroom philosophy proves a hit
Tuesday 04. of November 2008By: BBC News
Schools in Clackmannanshire that teach philosophy to young children are to be visited by an Australian professor keen to assess the impact of the subject.
Brightest pupils less able than 30 years ago, research shows
Tuesday 28. of October 2008By: The Guardian
The intellectual abilities of England's brightest teenagers have declined rapidly in three decades, according to a study which suggests schools are failing to stretch the brightest pupils in their drive to improve education for...
Children need to be sprinkled with fairy dust
Monday 27. of October 2008By: The Times
When we are young we use our fantasy world of magic and myth to grapple with fears about life, death and danger