"The youngsters, aged between seven and 12, were left in tears after being approached by a police community support officer and ordered to leave the park," said the paper. "They were told a neighbour had complained they were making too much noise. The children were then each issued with a blue ticket detailing their offence."
The Telegraph's web story quoted one dad who was livid at the police action. "What has the world come to when children can't play in a park without getting intimidated by police," he told the paper. "We are not talking about drunken knife-wielding teenagers here."
Babies are designed to be useless on purpose, argued psychologist Alison Gopnik in a fascinating piece in the New Scientist titled From Butterfly to Caterpillar: How Children Grow Up.
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