News Archive
Mrs Mac’s elementary lesson
Monday 02. of October 2006By: The Times
WHEN EXAM results, rather than class or family contacts or old school ties, became the main method for selecting who gets the best jobs, our leading public schools had to change the way they taught. Their answer was academic...
If you think 'breast is best' for your child's intelligence then think again, say scientists
Wednesday 04. of October 2006By: The Guardian
Breastfeeding your baby has little or no effect on its intelligence, the largest study ever conducted on the issue reveals today.
Give kids more free playtime, docs urge
Monday 09. of October 2006By: CNN.com
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Here's some soothing medicine for stressed-out parents and overscheduled kids: The American Academy of Pediatrics says what children really need for healthy development is more good, old-fashioned...
Official: now it's good to push your kids to excel
Sunday 08. of October 2006By: The Observer
New research dismisses fears that children encouraged to take extra classes feel stressed and says they do better at school and reap benefits in later life.
The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds
Monday 09. of October 2006By: American Academy of Pediatrics
Play is essential to development as it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and youth. Play also offers an ideal opportunity for parents to engage fully with their children. Despite...
The Invention of Childhood
Wednesday 11. of October 2006By: BBC Radio 4 Series
Ideas about the nature of childhood and about how best to bring up a child have changed in significant ways over time. It’s true that at any one point in time we can find people disagreeing about these issues, but in most periods...
Television and language development in the early years: a review of the literature
Wednesday 11. of October 2006By: Dr Robin Close
In 2003, the National Literacy Trust commissioned Dr Robin Close to conduct a literature review of published research in order to understand more fully the relationship between television viewing in the early years and language...