Archive for the 'children' Category
Pants to paedophiles preferring pleats
Yazan: Sara | 31 May 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: children, crime, Scotland
Today’s Daily Mail caries a story bizarre even by that publication’s usual standards. So bizarre that I was not prepared to believe it until I had obtained verification from another source. But it is true. A secondary school in Glasgow has changed its school uniform regulations and in order to frighten parents itno complying has [...]
Playing the blame game won’t save children’s lives
Yazan: Sara | 28 May 2011 | No Comments
Categories: children
As a small child, I lived about a mile away from where Baby P, or Peter Connelly as we were later to know him, lived and died. Just a small distance, but miles away in many ways, as my family home was in the Victorian housing of Bowes Park and, maybe more significantly, the Borough of [...]
Too much of a mouthful, even for the Mail
Yazan: Sara | 12 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: children, food, Uncategorized
The Daily Mail continues its schizophrenic approach to the coalition today through the rather unexpected cause of the Food Standards Agency. In the past, the Mail has ranked the FSA as the worst of the nanny-state, elf ‘n’ safety mob. Indeed only a month ago, the paper demanded the early death of the FSA, calling it a ‘£135 [...]
Have we fallen out of love with books?
Yazan: Sara | 29 May 2010 | No Comments
Categories: books, children
It’s difficult to decide what thefavourite part of my house is. I love my huge kitchen, with it’s vast expanse of worktops and cupboards big enough to store all sorts of kitchenalia. But I also adore my built-in bookshelves. At four metres long and stretching from floor to ceiling, they are better than any glass-fronted display [...]
Now will you leave our children in peace?
Yazan: Sara | 06 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: children, education
At the end of last year, I blogged on the stupidity of pushing literacy on children at ever-younger ages, often before they are ready for it. Today, a report from a leading New Zealand university shows that early reading makes no difference to the reading age of children at the age of 11. The author [...]
Hey! Minister! Leave them kids alone!
Yazan: Sara | 31 December 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: children, education
Ten years ago, my neighbour and friend was in despair. Her son, only a month younger than my daughter, was almost three and was not reliably potty trained. Pressure from relatives left her with the feeling that she was a failure to her oldest child and all his ante & post natal class peers were [...]
Neither drunk, nor disorderly
Yazan: Sara | 17 December 2009 | No Comments
Categories: children, health
According to the Government’s Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson, I have a middle-class obsession. Actually I am a mother attempting to have a middle-class obsession. My attempted obsession? Feeding my child alcohol. Now before you run off and report me to social services as an unfit parent, I should point out that this only goes [...]
