My not quite 5 year old daughter has very excitedly gone on her first ever trip to the cinema this afternoon, to see the new Disney film “The Princess and the Frog”. Apparently it is notable for having a black heroine (although surely Mulan, Pocahontas and Jasmine are far from white). But living in multicultural [...]
Posts Tagged ‘under fives’
It’s a girl thing?
Posted in 0-5s, Children, tagged gender, under fives on February 19, 2010 | 9 Comments »
When Did Your Baby Crawl?
Posted in Children, Education, Health, Parents, tagged child development, under fives on February 17, 2010 | 7 Comments »
There is nothing that fascinates the mother of a young baby as much as their little darling’s development. We watch carefully for signs of progress, be it rolling, sitting up, crawling and the holy grail of baby development, walking! And we assume that other people are as equally fascinated and (particularly in the case of [...]
Can Bureaucracy Save Our Children?
Posted in Children, Education, Parents, Politics, tagged child protection, childcare, government, safeguarding, under fives on February 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In last night’s Panorama , Jeremy Vine examined the role of the new Independent Safeguarding Agency. Anyone who works or volunteers with children once a week or more will need to be checked by the new agency. Let me state at the beginning that of course convicted paedophiles should be barred from working with children, [...]
Audit commission report – what’s not made the media
Posted in 0-5s, Children, Health, tagged audit commission, under fives on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This morning the papers & broadcast news were full of reports that ‘Labour spending has failed to improve child health’ and that a wave of policies were not offering ‘value for money’. I was interested to see on what grounds these claims were being made, and if it was a fair summary of the Audit [...]
