Is YOUR child overweight? There is, it appears, a reasonable chance of it. You see, according to figures that have been released in recent days, almost one in four under-fives in Britain can be considered as such. This is, for obvious reasons, quite a concern. Research that is due to be presented at a congress...Read More

Think about men in the media and the picture that is painted often isn’t the prettiest. Operation Yewtree. Domestic abuse. Violent celebrities. Sexual Predators. From Savile to Clarkson, Ched Evans et al. From arrogance to abuse and all stops in between. The media does so much to shape our perceptions. That being the case, those...Read More

Does YOUR child use the internet to access pornographic images? No? You’re sure now? The reason for asking (and for asking again) is that research has been released in recent days that makes for uncomfortable reading. The subject is online porn. The findings are troublesome. You see, thanks to the internet, young people have never...Read More

Earlier this month, we found ourselves at odds with Sir Richard Branson. You see, not long after publishing a blog post outlining the dangers that smoking skunk can pose to teenagers, the Virgin supremo made comments that left us staggered. The headline in The Telegraph read: ‘No harm in skunk for most of us, says...Read More

Young people today don’t know the difference between right and wrong. This is something that we hear said quite often. Certain sections of the media, in particular, would have us all believe this to be beyond question. The problem is that – in our experience, at least – it simply isn’t the case. Some young...Read More

Young people need hope. Young people need vision. Young people need drive. Young people need aspirations. Young people need to take risks from time to time. To aim high. To try hard. To reach out and take the opportunities on offer. To achieve. To succeed. To realise their full potential. Young people do not need...Read More

In health terms, there is nothing that concerns parents more than a child’s emotional and mental state. This is a subject that we tackled in a recent post on our blog following some in-depth research into the subject. Not long after the report that prompted this post, further figures were released. These underlined some of...Read More

Got children? Got concerns? To be a parent is to fret. It’s part of the job. Not much makes us more anxious than the health of our children. Serious illnesses such as cancer. Long-term conditions like asthma or diabetes. Health, weight and diet. There’s so much to perturb parents. Few things, however, worries us much...Read More