Parenting news: archive
National SATs tests ‘turn children off learning’
The Times (London), 13 May 2008
School standards should be monitored by the random testing of a sample of pupils, MPs demand today.
Breast-feed bonus
The Times (London), 13 May 2008
Women who breast-feed their children for more than a year reduce their risk of rheumatoid arthritis by half, a study has suggested.
ID mix-up puts mum on school blacklist
The Express, 12 May 2008
A mother told of her shock last night after being branded a violent, alcoholic drug dealer.
Gruffalo author backs cannabis crackdown
The Times (London), 11 May 2008
Julia Donaldson blames the drug for worsening the mental illness that drove her son to suicide and backs reclassification.
Prince Philip attacks big families
The Times (London), 11 May 2008
Prince Philip emerges as model royal 'eco-warrior' who believes overpopulation has contributed to the pressures on the world.
8-minute lessons boost pupils’ GCSE grades
The Times (London), 11 May 2008
Tyneside comprehensive is to teach all GCSE subjects in eight-minute bursts after finding that they boosted pupils’ results.
Boarding school ‘may harm children’
Observer, 11 May 2008
MPs to investigate social and emotional impact of separating young children from their parents.
Damned are the bouncing castles
Sunday Times, 11 May 2008
OMG, as my daughter would say. What a horrible, depressing story this is. For everybody. By Rachel Johnson.
Pensioner ‘slaps’ teenager for abusing
Daily Telegraph, 10 May 2008
A retired postmistress tackled a youth with a rolled-up copy of church council minutes when they clashed on the village green.
Bouncy castle payout threatens childrens’ parties
Daily Telegraph, 9 May 2008
Children’s birthday parties could become a litigious minefield after a High Court judge blamed a couple who hired a bouncy castle for an accident in which a boy was seriously brain damaged.
Mother wins court fight over bouncy castle injury
The Times (London), 9 May 2008
Brain damaged boy to receive over £1m after High Court rules parents who hired inflatable failed to supervise it properly.
ASBOs quietly dropped as youths ignore them
The Times (London), 9 May 2008
Numbers issued in sharp decline as 61 per cent of juveniles and 43 per cent of adults found to be breaching their orders.
Intensive tuition proves cure for illiteracy
The Times (London), 9 May 2008
One-to-one teaching for half an hour a day is turning struggling children into the best in their classes at reading.
The glass ceiling in women’s heads
The Times (London), 8 May 2008
Women in their thirties often face the next move up the career ladder with dread. Comment by Camilla Cavendish.
Algarve couple were ‘affected by illness, not alcohol’
The Times (London), 8 May 2008
Eamon and Antoinette McGuckin insisted that they were responsible parents and had not been on an alcoholic binge.
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