News Archive
Implementing child rights in early childhood
Wednesday 13. of September 2006United Nations - COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD (pdf document)
Junk culture 'is poisoning our children'
Tuesday 12. of September 2006By: The Telegraph
A sinister cocktail of junk food, marketing, over-competitive schooling and electronic entertainment is poisoning childhood, a powerful lobby of academics and children's experts says today.
Modern life 'poisoning' childhood
Tuesday 12. of September 2006By: BBC News
Childhood creativity is being stifled by a combination of junk food, school targets and mass marketing, a group of authors and academics has claimed.
Junk food, TV and the internet 'are poisoning childhood'
Tuesday 12. of September 2006By: The Daily Mail
Children are being deprived of the right to grow up at their own pace by a combination of advertising, junk food, pressures at school and TV and video games, experts have warned.
Lost childhood? Nostalgic claptrap
Wednesday 13. of September 2006By: Sean Coughlan - BBC News
Children are losing their imaginative powers, claims a group of child experts. Rubbish, says best-selling children's author, GP Taylor, they're just as creative as ever.
Pioneer nursery stays outdoors - in all weathers
Monday 30. of October 2006By: The Guardian
Freddie and Alastair clambered around their childminder's garden snugly dressed in their unofficial uniform: chest-high waterproof trousers, rainbow braces, thick jumpers and welly boots. Blond and ruddy, the pair, aged two and...
Archbishop warns of child crisis
Monday 18. of September 2006By: BBC News
Children today face too much "pressure to achieve" and have to take too many tests at school, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has said.