Articles Tagged: kids
Victory for boy who wore a skirt to school as he wins right to wear shorts in summer
Chris Whitehead, the boy who wore a skirt to school in summer uniform protest, has worn his right for boys to wear shorts in warmer months
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Kate McCann backs new missing children hotline
Kate McCann has hailed the launch of a new Europe-wide missing children telephone hotline as a ‘lifeline’ for families like her
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Stephen Fry backs 'magic' virtual world for kids' favourite storybook characters
Children’s books’ classic characters have been transformed for the modern age - in a virtual world.
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Boy denied place at local primary school because he lives 20CM outside the catchment area
Three-year-old Brock Housden is without a school place after officials ruled he lived 20cm too far away from his local primary school in Sutton
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Babies born by C-section more likely to be obese, says study
As if parents hadn’t had enough blame levelled at them for the childhood obesity crisis, now mums who have their babies by Caesarean have been told they risk their kids growing up overweight.
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The Primary Days: Playground politics
Even at the age of 37 years old, the school playground reduces me to a paranoid wreck - in true schoolgirl-esque style I have thoughts such as "why won't that mum talk to me" and "I wish I had shoes like hers".
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Not all stay-at-home mums are depressed and joyless
Stay-at-home mums beware: giving up your career to look after your kids can ruin your life, leaving you angry and depressed.
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Terrible Twos: Fire in her belly
The funny thing about the name of this column is that Ruby has never really been very Terrible at all. As far as big tantrums go, hers have been so few and far between I could probably count them on, oh I don't know, half a hand.
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