Blog posts for ‘Personal Safety’ 
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Anti-bullying week 2011
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Categories: Growing up, Personal Safety, Self-esteem
So many children’s lives are blighted by bullying. It is important that families and schools face up and admit to this issue and take firm action. MyDaughter.co.uk supports anti-bullying week and we hope that in the future there will be less stigma so that the victims of bullying can come forward and receive the help, support and understanding they deserve.
Worried about bullying?
- If your instincts tell you that your child is being bullied, trust them.
- Tread softly. Don’t rush...
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The rise of cyberbullying?
Wednesday 10 August 2011
Categories: Education, Personal Safety, Technology & the Internet
A new study by academics at Anglia Ruskin University has concluded that just under a fifth of young people have suffered from cyberbullying, where mobiles and the internet are used as channels for vindictive messages and hate campaigns. 22% of the girls and 13.5% of the boys in their online survey of 500 11-19 year olds claimed that they had been the victim of cyberbullying, and reported the psychological damage they felt they had suffered as a result.
Am I alone in being surprised that...
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The end of the cotton wool era?
Saturday 30 July 2011
Categories: Education, Health, Personal Safety
There’s a nursery school in Liverpool where children spend all day playing, learning and having fun in six acres of land. They climb trees, build dens and go pond dipping. They eat outside, nap outside and learn outside whatever the weather. They slide down mudhills, getting wet and dirty, and then warm themselves by the fire pit. It’s called Sandfield Natural Play Centre. Initially some parents were nervous but now they are seeing how their children have become more confident, how...
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Wednesday 5 January 2011
Categories: Extra curricular, Health, Parenting, Personal Safety
In a recent mumsnet survey about pressures on children today, 78% of respondents expressed their concern that children today don’t play outside enough. We all recognise the value of fresh air and exercise, so what do parents do if they see their children spending a vast amount of their leisure time virtually immobile in front of a television, computer screen or games console?
Think about the recent snow, and whether you encouraged your children to take advantage of the opportunity to...
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When ignorance isn't bliss...
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Categories: Drugs and Alcohol, Education, Growing up, Personal Safety, Sexual Relationships
The rather sensational headline in a recent Daily Mail online article read: ‘Pupils to learn about rape and laws of consent in bid to cut violent crime’. The story went on to explain that the ‘lessons about rape and drunken sex’ are proposed by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, in an attempt to reduce the rate of violent crime in the city. They would be part of the Personal, Social and Health Education programme.
Critics of the scheme, such as Margaret Morrissey, founder of...
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Young people need adventure as well as exam results!
Monday 20 September 2010
Categories: Education, Extra curricular, Letting go, Personal Safety
Education isn’t just about academic achievement. Of course it is important but, in an increasingly competitive world, it is often the other aspects of a young person’s CV that will set them apart and give them extra appeal – either as a potential employee or as a student.
Every pupil has to study the three Rs at school but not everyone chooses to engage in extra curricula activities like learning to play an instrument, taking to the stage, being part of a sports team or doing the...
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Trials and tribulations...
Tuesday 17 August 2010
Categories: Family Relationships, Media Influence, Parenting, Personal Safety
You’ve got to sympathise with poor Nigel Smith, on at least two fronts. He wrote in Femail, Daily Mail last week about his current trials of raising his 8 year old daughter and he is a worried man.
Firstly his own mother inadvertently signed up his daughter to an internet chatroom. It’s not as bad as it sounds – it’s an age-appropriate site which is peopled by cute monsters created by the children, and its main purpose is for playing games. But my antennae are twirling:...
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Cotton wool chokes...
Tuesday 10 August 2010
Categories: Growing up, Letting go, Media Influence, Parenting, Personal Safety
Our children are our most precious possession… and yet, of course, we don’t possess them. We bear them, nurture them, treasure them and continue to worry about them long after they leave our home and make their own. They enchant and frustrate us; delight and terrify us. At every stage of their lives we try to provide for and protect them. So when there is a media story about a dreadful fate befalling a child our deepest fears are aroused.
The urge to defend and protect our young is a...
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Cycling to school alone - parents & schools in conflict
Wednesday 7 July 2010
Categories: Letting go, Parenting, Personal Safety
The story of the Dulwich family and the school in conflict over the cycling to school of the two young children has thrown up a number of interesting issues. (Daily Mail July 7th 2010)
Whose call is it to decide how safe a school-related activity is, and can the school “pull rank” over the parents and insist that an activity is unreasonably dangerous, even if the parents disagree?
The controversy this has caused confirms that this is clearly not a simple question with an obvious answer....
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N.I.C.E sex education
Thursday 17 June 2010
Categories: Drugs and Alcohol, Education, Growing up, Personal Safety, Sexual Relationships
In an ideal world children would remain innocent little angels playing innocent sweet games until … when? Who is to decide?
Children are born curious. Asking endless questions is how they learn. Of course different children ask different questions at different ages and of course some parents find the “Where do babies come from” questions just too embarrassing to answer. Or they fall back on the age-old get-out statements: “Under a gooseberry bush” or “Wait till you’re older”.
In fact...
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