The researchers did find the most successful early childhood leaderswere those who created a "participative culture" and gave their staffthe opportunity to exert "bottom-up" influence.
This will warm the cockles of old hippy hearts. It gets better. "Eventhe best possible models of early childhood leadership are constrainedby internal institutional factors and governmental or local authorityregulations."
This must be a call to revolution.
Smash the system. Let workers rule. As the anarchist slogan says: "Astrong people needs no leaders."
- A head teacher's decision that children wouldn't be making Mother'sDay cards in class reaches the Daily Mail. The paper duly raised itsreaders' blood-pressure with this latest example of sensitivity gonemad.
The head explained that around five per cent of the children have noregular contact with their mother - through bereavement, living with alone father, or being in care.
There are around 18 pupils in that category in the small primaryschool.
Perhaps Mail editor Paul Dacre could tell them that everyone else ismaking a Mother's Day card, and ask who they would like to make one forinstead.
See if he learns anything.
- The company that makes Mars, Snickers and Maltesers is to stopmarketing sweets to children under the age of 12. So ran the headlinenews in a Daily Telegraph story.
A few paragraphs on, the situation looked a bit different. The paperpointed out that although the ban supposedly covers the internet, thecompany, Masterfoods, has no practical way to stop children under 12accessing its child-friendly web sites.
The Starburst web site "offers games and downloads that would appeal tochildren", says the paper. More of a PR initiative than a meaningfulpolicy change, then.
SOUNDBITE
"Mum brings them down on the plane, I'm not sure what the securitypeople make of them" - Kate McFadden, infant feeding co-ordinator atLiverpool Women's Hospital, on the knitted breasts she is now using toteach mums how to breastfeed in order to save money.
