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Changing parenting, changing childhood?

By Charlotte Faircloth “In retrospect, and from the vantage point of watching my younger friends and colleagues with their children today, my parenting style seems, if not neglectful, certainly a mite casual” Quote: Margaret K. Nelson. Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times, 2010. Photograph: Deniz Arzuk, 2014, stock image from Hürriyet newspaper, …

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The Great Robbery: Children and Television

“I find myself haunted (perhaps because I was a teacher) by a mental image of children’s faces pressed hard against the railings of a playground which lies silent and deserted behind them. The dull and child-like eyes gaze out forever upon the grown-up world they ache to join, never turning away even to look at …

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“Have they forgotten how to play?” Games, toys and children’s play

“Once upon a time, children pored over elaborate toy train sets, fortified camps in remote woods, played kiss-chase, tab and hopscotch in the streets and returned home in a heap to get stuck into Swallows and Amazons. In a single generation that age of innocence seems to have been entirely lost.” Clare Garner, The Independent, …

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“Parents Beware!” Children’s Independent Movement

“Just walking down a busy city street can be like running the gauntlet for a child. There are bullies of all ages and races: there are maniacs on the road, driving at 60 mph along high streets. Worst of all, there are the sadistic, the insane, and the perverted.” Quote: Walter Ellis, The Times, 1 …

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