Overview: The child in the family

This article was on the Unicef website it picks up on some really interesting points about the relation to children & childhood and the importance of family. It also has some other links about gender etc. A really interesting website

http://www.unicef.org/childfamily/index.html


Bobby x

History of Childhood

Here is what I found relating to the history of Childhood...

Additional Reading

Barbara A. Hanawalt.(1995) Growing up in medieval London: the experience of Childhood in history. Oxford University Press.

James Walvin (1982) A child's world : a social history of English childhood, 1800-1914. London: Penguin

Grant, Julia The Journal of the history of and Childhood and Youth: Entering into the Fray: Historians of Childhood and Public Policy. Volume 3, Number 1  p107-126

Related Websites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/childhood/

http://open2.net/theinventionofchildhood/childhood_inventions.html

http://www.pineforge.com/newman6study/resources/childhood.htm

The BBC website is about the Invention of Childhood which accompanies the audio book/CD that Lin encouraged us to listen to. It looks at childhood through the ages beginning in the 11^th Century right up until the present day. It covers a vast range of subjects and areas that have affected British Childhood from the Arrival of Christianity, Black Death, Rousseau, Welfare State and much more in-between! The website has some good information on and links to other websites and programmes of interest however the CD is definitely worth a listen!

Theres more on TV than X Factor!

Hi All

I just thought I would share a few things that are on the TV over the next week (apart from Strictly and X Factor!)

Mixed Race Britain - Saturday 8th October 9pm BBC2 How the world got so mixed up the story of how throughout history the races of the world's empires have mixed together.

Twincredibles - Monday 10th October 9pm BBC2 Documentary following 5 sets of twins and looking at nature v nurture.

Mixed Britannia - Thursday 13th October 9pm BBC2 (3 part series) started this week but I have put a link to the first episode below to Iplayer, looking at mixed race community in Britain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b015qms8/

Thought they might be worth a little watch, a few things to do with history, ethnicity and nature nurture.
Happy Viewing xx

Child of our time!

Hi All

I don't know if anyone else watched the BBC series 'Child Of Our Time' Prof Robert Winston (love that guy!) has followed the development of 25 children from different ethnic, social and geographical backgrounds born in the year 2000 and how factors such as personality are different.

The website is really good with some links to other great websites on.

If you haven't seen it you can watch a lot of past episodes on the website but you can get more on you tube too!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072bk8

Happy Viewing x

Right then here goes...

Well this is my first of many (hopefully!) blogs...I am new to the world of blogging so forgive me if I ramble.

I am very excited about starting my degree and finally feel like I'm on the right road to where I want to be.

I am well aware of the challenges and hard work ahead but I'm ready for it...bring it on!!

I have been busy searching the web and have found so many interesting things, its amazing whats out there! I will share more along the way (when I work out how to that is!) I look forward to working with the amazing people I have met over the past week and making sure we all survive this journey together!!

Farewell for now fellow bloggers!x