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Well now, I'm off on maternity leave next week. so this may be the last of my TV round-ups. I quite like doing them though, so if they are at all useful to anybody please comment and maybe I'll continue, at least until MediaBaby makes an appearance...
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Good piece in the Observer by Barbara Ellen about the fact that the young people she knows are more mature, organised, calm, have more self-belief and are generally more 'together' than she ever was. It all goes along with my generation Y theory...
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MediaChild occasionally visits an "arts club" with his Dad on Thursday mornings at the Evergreen Adventure Playground in Hackney. I didn't realise it was a Sure Start session but apparently it is. I haven't ever been but it sounds brilliant...
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Monday 1 February NB There was supposed to be a Panorama at 8.30pm on BBC1 looking at the child protection register, but it has been replaced by an interview with Kay Gilderdale who helped her bedridden daughter kill herself. 1.20pm More4 3 Minute Wonder...
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It has come to my attention late (because I don't have Sky) that Cardiff's fantastic Juke Box Juniors, who impressed so many attendees at CYP Now's Awards last year , are finalists in Sky's Got to Dance show / competition. The dance troop...
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Here's your friendly neighbourhood round-up of TV shows you might want to watch this week. Monday 25 January BBC1 8.30pm Panorama: What's Really In Our Kids' Food? An investigation of the kind of food children are being given at home and in...
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Oh good grief. Government-backed charity Beatbullying picked chart-topping band N-Dubz as its ambassadors only to have to withdraw its commendation of them after Dappy texted a woman who had been critical of him on Chris Moyles' show with, if you...
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Yesterday I took MediaChild for his 27 month check up at Linden Children's Centre in Hackney. It was strange to move from covering the issue of health visitors and children's centres on our website to experiencing it as a service user. The receptionist...
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Interesting letter in the New Yorker about young people, the children of first generation immigrants, feeling disenfranchised from the country in which they live because they “only see the disparity between their community’s impoverished isolation and...
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That's the headline in The Sun today , or at least on its website - I haven't seen the paper. (Actually it uses a word which hilariously our website won't let me write). The Sun has published a pic of a six month old with an unlit cigarette...
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I think I have heard the best apprenticeship story ever. 16 year old Emily Hart joined a hairdressing salon in Knightsbridge, spent the next four years travelling the world with her boss, hair guru Errol Douglas MBE, (himself the product of an apprenticeship...
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I'm listening...." A school-based counselling service called Place2Be is working with children who would customarily be diagnosed with ADHD and medicated accordingly. Just giving them a calm, quiet place to talk and get supportive advice has...
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Another day, another opportunity to get cross about teachers. "Why should they be allowed to close the schools when I have to go to work?" "I can't get my child to school because the roads are too slippery and the news said we shouldn't...
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A new year, a new TV schedule. Here's your round-up of programmes that might be of interest to the children and young people's sector. Let me know what you think of them, if you watch any. Monday 11 January 12.05pm Channel 4 Three Minute Wonder...
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It's long been a practice in film marketing to extract the positive sounding bits from otherwise dire reviews of films to slap onto the marketing material, so "a breathtaking piece of stupidity" will become "Breathtaking"!"...