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- Making bedtime easier
- When and why do children feel stress?
- Does Your Child Have a Hidden Disability?
- But I waaaaaant it ?.. nowwwww!
- Parents urged to THINK! Safety when buying a bike
- Raising girls – 5 big questions
- Survey of London parents paints powerful picture
- What every child wish their parents knew
- Children and the mobile phone! - an addiction, a necessity or just fun?
- Mobile phones could threaten our children's health
- Teenage eating disorders could be triggered in the first few years of life
- Parents concerned about reported side effects of new meningitis vaccine
- Babies Bumps & Bears. National Sussex-based charity supports exciting new Brighton event
- Child safety at Christmas
- New obesity report points to podgier toddlers
- Positive thinking – and alternative therapies – could help you get pregnant
- Parents urged to protect babies from cat suffocation danger
- ‘Water baby’ classes being pioneered in Britain
- Disney withdraws from mobile merchandising deals
- Fear over MMR vaccine could lead to measles resurgence
- Alder Hey announces help line
- Mother of ‘abducted’ teenager blames internet
- Its official - bugs are good for babies!
- Parents’ ignorance of first aid is endangering childrens’ lives
- Mother develops natural cure for eczema
- New research moves closer to solving the mystery of cot death
- Sight Savers launches new campaign to help children in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
- Government lambasted for spending £3 million on MMR awareness campaign
- Government earmarks £450 million for Children’s Fund
- Barnado’s charity calls for new child protection agency
- Childhood First launches new training and support programme for child carers
- Mothers could face danger from immune system breakdown in later life
- Children could be free to see X-rated films
- National autism rates higher than anticipated
- Parents are taking children out of school to take advantage of cheaper holidays
- New seatbelt safety adaptor now available for expectant mothers
- Don’t miss Child Safety Week
- Latest US school slaughter attributed to bullying
- Stroke baby makes complete recovery
- Nursery teacher on trial for breaking toddler’s arm
- The cost of loving
- Breast may not necessarily be best after all
- Are toys inhibiting children’s play skills?
- Sins of the fathers and mothers
- Boy of 4 victim of drunk driver
- Teenager loses hand in suspected terrorist attack
- Parents warned against the dangers of ‘hothousing’
- Dolls are not just childs play for participants in the Babies Project
- 90% of parents appear to back smacking
- Saatchi Gallery investigated for displaying child porn
- Donating eggs to private fertility clinic almost ended in death
- Did you know? - An internet census of 50,000 children
- Half term takes its toll on the roads
- Freezing babies’ umbilical cords could save their lives in later years
- Babies born to older mothers have higher blood pressure
- Coil back under scrutiny as survey reveals it might cause infertility in some women
- Investors in Children scheme to rate nurseries and childminders
- When your child asks to get into bed with you...
- The craze continues - prepare for a new generation of Pokemon characters
- Painkillers administered during labour could inhibit early bonding between mother and child
- Putting too high a price on talent
- Birth survey makes revealing reading
- Government to provide one-to-one advisors for child runaways
- Ovarian grafts could help preserve fertility in cancer patients
- Children are increasingly being targeted by alcohol companies
- Fathers aged 45 plus more likely to produce children with schizophrenia
- Older mothers more likely to have caesarians
- School dinner menus to be overhauled
- Boy of four in bike rage incident
- The power of suggestion - TV ads are a major influence on children's 'wishlists'
- Teenager wins top child website award
- Research sheds valuable light into the minds of young bullies
- Horses for courses - why a child’s position in the family influences future career choices
- The cause of Cot Death and how to prevent it
- Spott: Cot Deaths of Maori twins entirely preventable
- Choosing child care
- Child pop star teams up with minister to warn children of road safety dangers
- Crawlers launches new baby and toddler knee protection
- Kids Talk - extra security for children
- Community Alerts launches national registration campaign
- Home Childcare - Now more affordable than ever
- Nanny tax break for middle class excludes nannies
- Lead Test - home analysis services
- The device which turns your mobile phone into a baby monitor
- Help your child to succeed
All parents want their child to succeed, but few know how they can best help. The result is Help your child to succeed; the essential guide for parents, published recently and already a best seller through bookshops and schools ...continued
- Prince of Wales Arts & Kids Foundation competition
The Prince of Wales Arts & Kids Foundation have put together a fantastic competition for children aged 10-14 as part of their StoryQuest festival which starts on Thursday 30th September.
Children have the chance of having their story read out on BBC Radi
- Mum has paint removed from home after fears lead could harm children
A Worried mother is taking steps to have lead removed from her home after discovering it can reduce children's IQs by up to 30%...click headline for more
- New campaign asks you to 'give life, give hope' to those with fertility problems.
The Department of Health today launched a new campaign to raise public awareness about the need for egg and sperm donation. The campaign encourages men and women to donate sperm and eggs in order to ‘Give Life, Give Hope’ to the thousands of couples who h
- Warning: working long hours can damage your health!
It’s time to change the way we live and work
A new Working Families’ report shows that the way we work today means many parents don’t eat healthily or take regular exercise. Half of the parents surveyed for Time, Health and the Family: What Working Fam
- CHILDPROOF YOUR HOME
Is your baby or toddler......
• between the ages of 0-18 months
• has begun to crawl or showing the signs
• is a younger brother or sister to your toddler
• is attending a play group or nursery
....... then Childproofing is a must for
- CHILDPROOF YOUR HOME
Is your baby or toddler......
• between the ages of 0-18 months
• has begun to crawl or showing the signs
• is a younger brother or sister to your toddler
• is attending a play group or nursery
....... then Childproofing is a must for
- CHILDPROOF YOUR HOME
Is your baby or toddler......
• between the ages of 0-18 months
• has begun to crawl or showing the signs
• is a younger brother or sister to your toddler
• is attending a play group or nursery
....... then Childproofing is a must for
- Internet Safety for Kids and Family
Trend Micro has partnered with Childnet International in the UK as part of a new initiative to raise awareness amongst parents, children and educators about internet safety and security issues the new generation of ‘cyber kids’ face today. The aim of the
- Internet Safety for Kids and Family
Trend Micro has partnered with Childnet International in the UK as part of a new initiative to raise awareness amongst parents, children and educators about internet safety and security issues the new generation of ‘cyber kids’ face today. The aim of the
- Internet Safety for Kids and Family
Trend Micro has partnered with Childnet International in the UK as part of a new initiative to raise awareness amongst parents, children and educators about internet safety and security issues the new generation of ‘cyber kids’ face today. The aim of the
- Healthy Weight Calculator
Currently in the UK, the number of obese children continues to rise with just under one in five children between the ages of two and ten being diagnosed as obese. Children who are overweight are more likely to develop diabetes or heart disease in later l
- Healthy Weight Calculator
Currently in the UK, the number of obese children continues to rise with just under one in five children between the ages of two and ten being diagnosed as obese. Children who are overweight are more likely to develop diabetes or heart disease in later l
- Healthy Weight Calculator
Currently in the UK, the number of obese children continues to rise with just under one in five children between the ages of two and ten being diagnosed as obese. Children who are overweight are more likely to develop diabetes or heart disease in later l
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Chat Wise, Street Wise is the name of a report just issued by the Home Offices Internet Crime Room. It contains a number of warnings for parents about the dangers of letting children access the net unsupervised which is so often the case these days when so many children - some five million, according to the report - have a pc in their bedroom.
The main danger comes from chat rooms where children can engage in real time exchanges with other users in the room via typed messages. The people they talk to can, of course, assume any identity. A child may be under the impression he or she is talking to another child, when in reality that other person could easily be a paedophile deliberately looking to win the confidence of youngsters and to obtain more information such as addresses, phone numbers and so on with a view to getting closer to them even to meet with them in person.
There have been several cases reported in the press recently where supposed contemporaries whom children have met on the net, have turned out to be perverts in their 40s and 50s. Research recently carried out in the States points to web abuse on a frightening scale, indicating that a fifth of all juvenile chatroom users have been the victims of inappropriate sexual overtures in this way.
The Home Office report also alerts parents to the fact that paedophiles are also targeting school e-mail addresses. However, it has been criticised for not going far enough in calling for changes to be made in the internet industry which does not currently regulate against the use of bad language or explicit sexual content. Until such time, parents are being advised to bring themselves up to speed on modern technology, and to bring pcs out of their childrens bedrooms into communal family areas.
Television presenter, Carol Vorderman is currently spearheading a campaign designed to see real action against the on-line abuse of children and how to eradicate it. Having worked with closely police and even masqueraded as a 12-year old on the net *when she experienced a virtual approach from a paedophile), Vorderman is in no doubt what parents are up against, saying, I am a mum and I want to know how to protect my children. My daughter is eight and still believes in the tooth fairy. I dont want her innocence taken away.
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