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Spare the rod
Have parents become
Many people believe that smacking a child less attentive?
can impede his or her development and
cause behavioural problems in later life. Yet
Quite the reverse. 87 per cent of fathers believe that other
a new study has found no evidence for this,
wish their children would play fathers do not devote enough
reports The Sunday Times. On the contrary,
outside more, but 25 per cent are time to their offspring
the survey of 2,600 people carried out
too worried about safety issues (Equality and Human Rights
by a psychology professor at a university
to let them do so (National Commission/Guardian).
in Michigan showed that people who had
Trust/Daily Telegraph). In fact,
never been physically chastised performed
49 per cent of five- to ten-year-
worse at school and were less likely to
olds are never allowed to play
engage in volunteer work than those who
in the street at all, whereas only
had occasionally been smacked up until
12 per cent of the over-65s
the age of six. It was only those who were
recall being so restricted (Living
smacked well into their teens who displayed
Streets/Mail). But parents don’t
adverse effects, but even they fared better
do much larking around either;
academically than people who had never
64 per cent say they’re always too
been smacked. The study’s author, Marjorie
tired to play with their children
Gunnoe, said it wasn’t necessarily that
(Nuffield Health/Guardian). A
corporal punishment created good children,
third of working mothers say
but that parents who eschewed it might be
they’d like to quit their jobs to
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less likely in general to instill in their children
spend more time with their kids
madness
the self-discipline needed to succeed in life.
(NatCen/Mail); while 62 per cent
Half of British
children
aged five to
nine own a
Spirit of the age
An introduction
mobile phone,
to Ernie
Schools are being no staff supervision. throat-clearing, failing
despite
Parents and
Government
asked to carry out risk Perils faced by teachers to lubricate the mouth,
advice that
assessments for a range include damage to singing too high or using grandparents
no one under
of bizarre activities. The the voice caused by a forced whisper”.
can buy Premium
16 should
National Association of
Bonds for children.
have one. 75 Head Teachers claims
T_he returns – around
per cent of councils have asked
children aged
1.5 per cent tax-free
schools to investigate
seven to 15
annually – are hardly
safety in such scenarios
have one. The
as landing a helicopter
stellar. But there’s always
average age
the thrill of beating the 24,000-
for a child to
in school grounds
to-one odds and winning one
get his first
(hazards include a lack
mobile phone
of air-traffic control) and of the monthly prizes. T_he
is eight, and
using drum sticks with minimum purchase is £100.
the average
child’s bill
is £10.50
a month.
(PhonePay
Health Scare of the week
Plus/News of
the World)
Don’t let your children sit too close to the
television screen, says the Daily Mail. T_he
worry isn’t so much that they’ll get square
eyes, but that the set will topple onto them.
In 2002 – the last year for which data is
available – 9,300 people in the UK were
injured in TV-related accidents. More than
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the most common accident was being struck
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