News Archive
Children in crisis, Williams warns
Monday 18. of September 2006By: Yahoo News
The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned family separations and commercial pressures are causing a crisis in modern childhood.
Dr Rowan Williams said a new generation of young parents fail to offer the right example to their...
Modern life leads to more depression among children
Tuesday 12. of September 2006By: Telegraph
Sir - As professionals and academics from a range of backgrounds, we are deeply concerned at the escalating incidence of childhood depression and children’s behavioural and developmental conditions. We believe this is largely due...
The New First Grade: Too Much Too Soon?
Monday 11. of September 2006By: Peg Tyre - Newsweek
Brian And Tiffany Aske of Oakland, Calif., desperately want their daughter, Ashlyn, to succeed in first grade. That's why they're moving—to Washington State. When they started Ashlyn in kindergarten last year, they had no reason...
Pressures making teenage life a misery, warns charity
Tuesday 19. of September 2006By: The Guardian
Britain's teenagers are afflicted by an epidemic of depression and self-harm, a leading children's charity warned yesterday at the start of a two-year inquiry into whether the pressures of modern living are sullying the...
Alarm over pupils facing a 50-hour school week
Tuesday 19. of September 2006By: The Times
TEACHERS and campaigners clashed yesterday over government plans for schools to offer “wraparound” childcare that would have pupils spending 50 hours a week in school.
Why music lessons are good for the memory
Wednesday 20. of September 2006By: The Times
MUSIC lessons may improve memory and learning ability in young children by promoting different patterns of brain development, a study shows.
Boys-only education 'leads to divorce'
Friday 22. of September 2006By: The Independent
Men who went to single-sex schools are more likely to be divorced by their early forties, according to research published yesterday.