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Children Playing Outside

Outdoor Education, Obesity and the Off Switch

Helena Gillespie | Posted 08.05.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Children Technology, Tanya Byron, Children Playing Outside, Children Exercise, UK Schools, Child Obesity, UK Parenting, UK Health, UK Lifestyle, UK Universities & Education News
Helena Gillespie

We can't let ourselves be consumed by the panic about technology and blame it for the all the challenges, problems and stresses of modern parenting and childhood. We have to accept and embrace the role technology plays in our lives and help children to learn how to use it appropriately and enjoyably and when, crucially, to switch it off.

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Are Your Kids Free Range?

Jai Breitnauer | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Communities, Children Playing Outside, Childhood-Freedom, Parks, Neighbours, Kids Playing Out, Free Range Kids, Parenting, UK Lifestyle, UK Lifestyle News
Jai Breitnauer

Until I had my son Isaac, two, I didn't think any kids lived on our street. It was so quiet, the only time we saw our neighbours was when they got home from work or washed their car. But when I brought home my bundle of joy back in November 2008, half the street came out of the woodwork and admitted to having children under eight. So where were they?

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