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The sheer amount of personal data that children and their parents are giving away about themselves is staggering.  Consider this: Children aged 11 – 16 post on social media on average 26 times a day By 13, a child will have about 1,300 pictures and videos of themselves posted online. By 18, the average child...

January Sales Depression on the rise Holding children back The kind of home that produces successful children Can your family all eat the same meal? Probably not! A tanning tip for your summer holiday Are your children gamblers? Why tidy teenagers live longer Are you hiding some debts from your loved ones?  Probably. January –...

“It’s no good, it’s no good!” says the buyer – then goes off and boasts about the purchase. Gold there is, and rubies in abundance, but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel.  (Proverbs 20:14-15)  People in Bible times loved to shop, just as we do today.  People bought and sold and haggled for...

Half a million more people were diagnosed with depression in England in 2017 than in 2018.  Clinical depression now accounts for nearly one in ten conditions seen by family doctors. NHS Digital’s latest data reveals that prescriptions for antidepressants have soared in recent years.  Nearly 4.6million of us were diagnosed with depression in 2017/18, as...

Children who spend more than two hours a day looking at a screen have problems:  their memory is worse than average, their language skills are more limited, and their attention span is shorter. Such are the findings of a major study recently published by The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Overall cognition skills were found...

Children raised in religious homes are more likely to succeed academically than those from non-religious backgrounds, regardless of whether they go to a faith school or not. Such is the finding of recent research by the UCL Institute of Education, which analysed a cohort of pupils born in 1970, their religious upbringing and the school...

A staggering three in four parents are having to cook multiple meals each evening because of their own/partner/children’s restricted diets. This finding from a recent survey by Co-op follows the news that almost a third of us (30 percent) now have special dietary requirements or intolerances.   According to the statistics, our diets are increasingly in...

January is when many of us begin to daydream of summer holidays in the sun.  So here is some advice, way in advance: when you finally hit the beach this summer, your tan will be better if you sunbathe only every other day. Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have found that the pigmentation...

Here is a sobering fact:  more children have placed bets in the past week than have drunk alcohol, smoked or taken drugs.  Such are the findings from an audit by the Gambling Commission. It also found that one in seven 11- to16-year-olds bet regularly, staking an average of £16 a week.  And those who start...

Teenagers who are tidy are more likely to live to old age, according to a recent 48-year study. The vast data analysis found that people who had been tidy, quiet, calm and empathetic as teenagers, had then tended to live well on into old age. On the other hand, the research also traced strong links...

One in three of us is keeping so quiet about some debts we’ve run up, that we haven’t even told our partners about them.  So finds a recent survey by a government-backed advice body. The Money Advice Service (MAS) says that the average hidden debt across the UK amounts to £4,164 per person, and that...

Up to a million of us will join a gym this month.  Up to 800,000 of us will have given it up by February.  But before you return to the couch, why not consider the following: Only do exercises that you enjoy.   Have fun, and nothing else!  Don’t torture yourself on the cross trainers if...