• Films aimed at teenagers will be allowed to feature more bad language under new guidelines unveiled by the
• Parents have previously complained about swearing in PG and 12A films

• Forcing children to kiss relatives may be harmful, it has been claimed
• Parents have been advised to encourage them to ‘blow a kiss’ instead

Inflated praise can lead to kids retreating into their shell – and worry they will have to reach the same standard in future tasks
Children with low self-esteem could be harmed if they are lavished with too much praise by parents for doing things well, a research

• Office of the Schools Adjudicator warned some parents suffer disadvantages
• Their children are being squeezed out of classes by lots of siblings
By SARAH HARRIS
PUBLISHED: 23:40, 29 November 2013 | UPDATED: 00:44, 30 November 2013
Popular schools should consider scrapping priority for younger brothers and sisters because it is unfair to local families, it was suggested yesterday.
The Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) warned that some parents suffer ‘disadvantages’ because their children are being squeezed out of classes by lots of siblings.
They fail to gain places at nearby over-subscribed schools as families with …

Baroness Sally Morgan, the chairman of Ofsted, calls for a radical drive to raise standards of early education, including enrolling more children in school-based nurseries

Do you know of any cases of people struggling to find primary school places. Or of schools with more than 30 pupils per class?

Children face serious health problems in later life because they are not eating enough fruit and vegetables and are not doing enough exercise, the British Heart Foundation has warned.
Teenagers seem to be worse than younger age groups,

The pocket money savings website PktMny analysed more than 3,800 household chores and tasks from its system undertaken by boys and girls between the ages of eight and 18.

Independent July 2013
Instead of expensive gifts for teachers, how about parents thank them? It means more, and it’s free
Why have we got ourselves into the silly position of thinking that every teacher has to be bought a present at the end of every school year?
An apple for the teacher might once have been a well meant gesture but no parent should feel obliged to give there children’s teacher an expensice gift
Term ends in most schools this week and teachers, according to a Netmums survey, seem to be staggering home with …

The parents’ campaign group, ParentsOutLoud, and the ATL teaching union are heading up a campaign in Northern Ireland for some flexibility on the school starting age. The campaign is also …