Parent Gossip

24 Sep

ADHD - Parents to get training

In the news today, are calls from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) for a new approach to children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).  They argue that with proper training and lessons for parents and teachers on coping with the unruly behaviour that goes along with ADHD would be more effective [...]

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07 Aug

Let’s go climb a tree!

We are a growing nation, horizontally that is! With obesity reaching epic proportions in the UK it is little wonder that we are being urged to get ourselves and our children out there and get active! When I was a littler person we spent every moment of our free time climbing walls and trees [...]

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11 Jul

Home Alone?

I have to empathise with the thousands of working parents around the UK who are pulling their hair out over what to do with their children over the school break while they are out at work.  Unless you have been living under a rock today, you can’t have failed to hear or read about calls [...]

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09 Jul

Absent Parents Beware!

The ineffective CSA is to be abolished and replaced by the all new Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.  C-MEC, as it is to be known, will have enhanced powers under new legislation to ensure that lone parents receive the maintenance payments due to them.
Statistics show that over half of the lone parents in this country [...]

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04 Jul

Sex Education for 4 year olds?

In the news today is the somewhat controversial call from two prominent sexual health charities, Brook and the Family Planning Association, for sex education to be made compulsory for children as young as four.
Their argument is that by teaching children about sex from a very young age we can lower the numbers of sexually transmitted [...]

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04 Jul

Peter and Katie aren’t bad parents!

Yes, it’s official. Peter and Katie are NOT bad parents!
Peter Andre and Katie Price (aka Jordan) breathed sighs of relief yesterday after winning their court battle against the News Of The World. The newspaper printed the libellous article back in February. The expose, which was allegedly based on an interview with the couple’s former [...]

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