November 30, 2016
What do we do about children and screen time ? From time to time articles appear warning us that children and teenagers are spending more and more time on their screens. This is followed by a quote from an expert alerting us to the terrible dangers of prolonged screen time and strongly recommending we limit […]
READ MOREOctober 24, 2016
Joseph Heller wrote this in his novel, Catch 22 ‘Some men are born mediocre. Some men achieve mediocrity. Some men have mediocrity thrust on them’. Barely a week goes by without a new report coming to light suggesting that children and young adults are more distressed and unhappy than ever before. The reasons for this […]
READ MORESeptember 23, 2016
What’s the deal with children lying ? There has been some discussion in the papers recently about the notion that children lying can be a result of too strict parenting. This raises some interesting questions about the role of lying in childhood. How it comes about and what purpose it might have for the child […]
READ MOREAugust 25, 2016
Porn alert. I read recently that a top school is employing an Internet porn expert to teach ‘porn awareness’ classes to pupils amid fears that developing an addiction could be harmful to their studies, career prospects and their relationships. Setting aside the intriguing question of how you become an Internet porn expert this seems to […]
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