No more booze for you! Restaurant bans parents from having more than one alcoholic drink if they’re with kids.
I’ve been invited onto BBC Radio Three Counties to discuss the restaurant in New York that has split opinion with its controversial policy banning any diner with children from consuming more than one alcoholic drink. Since the bar’s policy, which has been in place for several years, started circulating on social media recently it has […]
SHOCKING ! Almost half of six-year-olds go online in their bedrooms – and a third use messaging services like WhatsApp, a study has revealed.
I was interviewed on Sky News and BBC Three Counties Radio today as it is Internet Safety Day about a survey of 1,500 parents by Internet Matters showing that six-year-olds are now as digitally-advanced as 10-year-olds were three years ago. As many as 48% use the internet for general browsing compared with 46 per cent of […]
Fly a kite and climb a tree… the National Trust’s 50 things to do before you’re 12
I’ve been asked to comment on this latest survey on BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC Radio Coventry and BBC Radio Three Counties today about the latest research showing that fewer than one in ten of today’s children have played in a wild place compared to half of their parents’ generation. So the National Trust decided […]
Warnings For Children And Adults Drinking High-Energy Drinks – Are We The Hyperactive Generation?
If you ever watched a child or teenager swig an energy drink and felt as if there was something fundamentally wrong with that picture, you were right, according to new medical research. I was interviewed on BBC Radio Three Counties today discussing children who are constantly wired and on the go. When I run my Beat […]