Jan
05
2008
Bookmarks for January 4th
- Web Playgrounds of the Very Young - New York Times
“20 million children will be members of a virtual world by 2011, up from 8.2 million today”.
Tags: children online future virtual - Neighbourhoods: Investing in playgrounds, investing in streets
“Tim Gill recalls the execrable 1980s tv programme That’s Life, which ran an over-excited campaign for safety surfacing on children’s playgrounds. One consequence was that the costs for authorities to provide facilities rose steeply”
Tags: playground cost safety panic campaign - Mobile Phone for Kids: freedom without the freedom…
Omego have developed a fully functional mobile phone for children. Unlike regular cell-phones, the Omego phone can be completely controlled: when and who a child can call and who can call them (to ensure strangers or unwanted calls are not received)
Tags: phones security - 3 in 5 parents couldn’t save their child’s life
A survey of 2,500 mothers by Tesco’s suggests that 60% of new parents wouldn’t know what to do in an emergency where their child’s life was in danger. Tesco’s are now sponsoring 20 free two hour seminars on child safety, to be held in towns around th
Tags: safety children Tesco’s - Dictionary of an East Dulwich Dad
TOOTING (participial vb.) - Change given back to a customer in the form of coins balanced precariously on top of notes, in turn balanced on top of the receipt, forcing you to stuff the whole bloody lot into your pocket with your only free hand - genius!
Tags: funny dictionary Tooting - Megan Meier
Old news, but still horrific
Tags: cyberbullying MeganMeier parents - Kids-party.com
Ideas, games, entertainers, plans, bouncy castles and venues for children’s birthday parties
Tags: parties UK
Related Entries:
- Mobile phones for Kids
- Giving your children some freedom
- Robotic Childcare
- ChildLine celebrates 20th Anniversary
- I smack and I’m proud
