Fury at ‘soft checks’ on child migrants: Adults pretending to be children say aid workers
ANGER erupted last night over a lack of checks to stop Calais Jungle migrants posing as children to get to Britain. Daily Express :: News Feed More...
Presenter Clare Balding on her first novel for children
FRESH from a triumphant Olympics, the presenter is launching her first novel, a children’s book mixing her passions of ponies and girl power. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed More...
Presenter Clare Balding on her first novel for children
FRESH from a triumphant Olympics, the presenter is launching her first novel, a children’s book mixing her passions of ponies and girl power. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Film reviews: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children and Amanda Knox
IF you look up the word “ghoulish” in the dictionary you will probably find a picture of Tim Burton. He is the master of the macabre, the godfather of the Gothic, forever inviting us into dream-like worlds More...
California Test Scores Show Little Progress With Foster Children
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) With the release of the Smarter Balance test scores in California last month as part of the new assessment system referred to as CAASPP came the news that while test scores did More...
UK Children of Immigrants Make Use of Higher Ed More Often
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Immigrant children in Britain tend to be more serious about higher education, according to a new report, in contrast to other countries in which immigrant children have fewer More...
Parents ‘Pass’ Math Skills Down to Children, Study Suggests
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found in a recent study that if parents are skilled at math, their children have a good chance of being strong math students as well. More...
UK Children Adopting Sedentary Lifestyles as Obesity Blooms
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Early childhood experts at Loughborough University’s School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences tested 45 Foundation Stage children attending two different schools More...
Parent Mental Illness Raises Suicide, Violence Risks in Children
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) An overwhelmingly serious public health concern has been detailed in a study led by Roger T. Webb, Ph.D. of the Center for Mental Health and Safety at the University of Manchester in England, More...
Despite Warnings, Parents Opting Children Out of Vaccines
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Pediatricians are reporting an increase in the number of parents who refuse to have their children immunized against infectious diseases. The American Academy of Pediatrics discovered More...