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- Making bedtime easier
- Children and the mobile phone! - an addiction, a necessity or just fun?
- 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
- Stranger danger in the bedroom
- 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
- 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
- Choir schools struggle to fill places
- Foreign Minister voices concern for plight of Down's babies
- Schools embrace football based workbooks
- Mary Quinton – pioneer physiotherapist – dies age 88
- Baby hip dislocation check to be axed
- Government set to launch ‘baby bonds’
- Meningitis B vaccination begins trials
- Lottery criticised for ignoring needs of childrens' hospices
- Baby boy abandoned day after Mother’s Day
- Parents encouraged not to be paranoid
- The big chill - why Russian babies are being subjected to ice treatments
- Redressing the balance - one woman's positive experience of egg donation
- Coroner contacts car seat manufacturers about safety concerns
- Mother abandons three children in squalor to go on holiday
- Teacher falsely accused of indecent assault by pupil
- Lawyers seek to set triple child killer free
- Bully victim bully forced to leave because school couldn’t cope with his tormentor
- Is your carpet poisoning your child?
- Further evidence of child obesity revealed
- Family massacres hit headlines
- Children deemed to be not at risk from ‘footballer’s migraine’
- Hughes Syndrome held to blame for some cases of recurrent miscarriage
- Horses for courses - why a child’s position in the family influences future career choices
- London school to be policed full time
- Race attacks perpetrated by children as young as 8
- 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
- MAKE A CHANGE. MAKE A DIFFERENCE
While accident rates are falling, 2,000 children are still admitted to hospital every week. Katrina Phillips, chief executive of Child Accident Prevention Trust says: “Many serious accidents could be prevented by parents making simple changes – whether i
- MAKE A CHANGE. MAKE A DIFFERENCE
While accident rates are falling, 2,000 children are still admitted to hospital every week. Katrina Phillips, chief executive of Child Accident Prevention Trust says: “Many serious accidents could be prevented by parents making simple changes – whether i
- MAKE A CHANGE. MAKE A DIFFERENCE
While accident rates are falling, 2,000 children are still admitted to hospital every week. Katrina Phillips, chief executive of Child Accident Prevention Trust says: “Many serious accidents could be prevented by parents making simple changes – whether i
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Parents of boys with proven football ability as young as ten are being paid tens of thousands of pounds by big clubs looking to recruit potential soccer stars into their training academies. Youngsters cannot be paid in their own right until they have reached the age of 16, so payments are instead offered to parents. Some leading lights of the soccer industry feel that having such big money at stake is providing the wrong sort of motivation.
The fear is that the accent on money will undermine the integrity of the game - already parents are appointing agents for their sons and entering into 'bidding wars' with different clubs - and also apply too much pressure on boys who are too young to deal with it.
Says former Liverpool captain, Alan Hansen, 'Once one parent gets a sniff of money, it's hard to stop it escalating. Parents asking for money for their boy to join Leeds, Newcastle or any top club is almost the norm.'
The Football Association has stepped to curtail things by imposing a condition that young players must live within a 90-minute drive of the academy they train with. However, clubs are getting round this restriction by luring entire families into their catchment areas by offering to pay relocation costs.
Talent scouts have been known to attend under-eight leagues and to approach boys as young as six years of age, when the youngest permitted age for joining a big club's training academy is nine.
The UK is not the only country where this trend is taking off. The Spanish team Real Madrid recently announced that it had signed up a Swedish boy of just ten years of age.
Coaches believe that the true potential of a talented player cannot be properly assessed until the age of about eighteen and that there could be enormous disappointment in store for anyone who does not make it at this stage, having had his hopes built up for so many years.
Comments Alan Hansen, the former captain of Liverpool, 'Out of every 1,000 players, only a handful will make it into the first team. Most of the rest will be thrown back into society at the age of 18, having failed to make it.
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