How free should our children be?

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Recently in The Times the weekend section was titled “Who needs Nintendo? How to have an Enid Blyton summer” and was full of some great articles by people like Dr. Tanya Byron and Chris Packham about putting the fun and freedom back into children’s outdoors experience and the value of unsupervised and unstructured play where imaginations [...]

Empty Nest or New Beginning?

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As we come towards the end of the holiday a small shadow is encroaching on my holiday bliss; my youngest son, my baby, is starting school. A year ago I went through the emotional roller coaster of my eldest son starting school. Just as I had been warned since the day he was born – the time [...]