Playing. It’s just something children do. To pass the time; to entertain themselves; to relieve boredom. Nothing more, nothing less – or at least, so it often seems. You might not have given this all that much thought, but to consider this in a little more depth is to realise that there’s rather more to...Read More

Tourette’s Syndrome – it’s not what you think It’s not what you think. Tourette’s Syndrome, that is.  You might think it’s all about swearing, inappropriate comments, and uncontrollable verbal outbursts. This is the general perception – a common misconception and one prevalent in media portrayals. But there’s rather more to Tourette’s Syndrome than this alone....Read More

“The use of screen time and social media by children and young people has rarely been out of the headlines in recent years.” These might be our words – after all, we’ve said and written such countless times since beginning our blog – but on this occasion, they’re not. On this occasion, these words are...Read More

Some time ago – in March 2015, to be precise – we published a post on our blog about pornography… Young people and children were the focus, in particular the increasing numbers believed to be accessing explicit content online, and the damage being done as a direct consequence. The world is a different place these...Read More

In 2014, Oxford University Press, which publishes, among other titles, the Oxford English Dictionary, announced for the very first time its children’s word of the year. The word most children chose was ‘minions’, a reference to the quirky characters from the popular animated Despicable Me film series. Twelve months later, in 2015, ‘hashtag’ took its...Read More