| Playhouse Disney Launches UK's First Ever Environmental Guide for ...
Playhouse Disney is launching the first ever environmental guide for parents with preschool children. Playhouse Disney's Playing for the Planet guide aims to help parents teach their children important environmental lessons via a series of fun interactive games and activities tailored specifically for preschoolers. The guide was created following new research revealing that environmental awareness is fast becoming a key part of a child's upbringing, with 'recycling' rating equally as important as 'saying please and thank you' or 'not being selfish' with many parents. The research also found that while 85% of parents believe that it falls to them to teach their children about green issues. More than half of parents (58%) believe they lack the information to take further measures to help their family become more environmentally friendly at home.
Age of Consent - Criminalizing Teen Sex
Sex! We are obsessed, stimulating ourselves through the media, exposing ourselves to non stop sexual images, using sex to sell everything from shaving cream to childrens underwear. We are also horrified by our concerns with sexual abuse, child molesters, Sexually transmitted diseases and a belief that sexually expression in childhood may lead to sexual misbehavior in adolescence and adult sexual offending. Our obsession with and horror about sex, have paradoxically generated both great sexual freedom and draconian laws which unfortunately have several (largely unintended) negative consequences. These may be summarized as follows: 1. Legal age of consent is out of sync with normal sexual development and adolescents are given conflicting and many confusing messages about sexual behavior.
Mama loves Nandinibabsmamba; sister loves connection
IF I QUOTED relevant song lyrics in this column, I'd be a hack, and you'd judge my musical taste and find it wanting. Also, various royalty seekers would want to charge this newspaper more than I get paid in a year. So just imagine the 14-year-old "River of Dreams" Billy Joel album playing inside the dented blue-green 9-year-old Toyota Corolla, on its way to the Washington, D.C., bus station. I visited my sister the weekend of her graduations. She got two master's degrees in addition to her two bachelor's degrees. Now she's not just Nandini, but Nandini, B.A., B.S., M.A., M.B.A. Nandinibabsmamba. It's fun to say. I visited again a week later, and Nandinibabsmamba had the old Billy Joel tape playing in her car as she drove me downtown. Rain spattered the windows as we passed buildings grand and standard.
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