The fact that today's technology has led to our children becoming more sedentary does not mean our children are happy to be inactive. Children want to be active and, with the right environment, their activity levels will naturally rise. Well designed school grounds inspire children to play actively for the recommended 60 minutes a day. Easy-to-install features that promote activity will encourage our children to become much fitter without even realising it. Who finds bleak tarmac spaces and exposed flat fields inviting?
- Catherine Andrews, chief executive, Learning through Landscapes
Parenting lessons are needed
Teaching young people about parenting isn't "too much, too soon" in my opinion, nor is it anything new. Parenting and child development was part of the curriculum when I first started teaching 28 years ago, and is as valuable and relevant to young people now as it was then.
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