05 August 2011 - Think Tank report on parenting
Spent yesterday doing radio and TV interviews about a think tank report on parenting, which included a five-point plan for parents of babies and toddlers to help give them a good start in life...
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Sue Palmer is a writer and presenter, best known for her books Toxic Childhood and 21st Century Boys. She is also one of the UK's most well-established authorities on the teaching of literacy.
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The 6 major areas of concern
1 The decline of outdoor play 2 The commercialisation of childhood 3 The ‘schoolification’ of early childhood 4 Listening, language and communication skills 5 Screen saturation and child development 6 Tests, targets and educationDetoxing childhood
The best way to 'detoxify' childhood is to focus on what children need for healthy development, and how we can meet these needs in a 21st century context. Click below to see them counted on the fingers of one hand!
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01 August 2011 - Some useful links
Earlier this year Oxford University Press asked me to make some short films about my work in child development and learning (especially literacy across the curriculum, and ‘skeletons’). These have just gone up on the OUP School Improvement Website. They’re planning another website for parents, and we recorded another film for that – ten ‘top tips’ for parents based on Toxic Childhood – but it isn’t up yet. In the meantime, I hope the following links might be of some use to people out there...
