Children in UK mental health hospitals ‘not improving’, parents say

More than half of parents with children in mental health hospitals do not feel their condition has improved as a result of treatment, while nearly a quarter say it has actually deteriorated, according to a survey.

The research was based on responses from 448 parents whose children have been in mental health hospitals in England over the last five years.

Social mobility: Poorer children ‘making less progress’

The Social Mobility Commission said poorer pupils were often overtaken by their better-off peers even if they had outperformed them at primary school.
The gap, which was most apparent in poor white children, has widened every year since 2012.
The Department for Education accepted it had “more to do” on the issue.

In an age of robots, schools are teaching to be redundant

In the future, if you want a job, you must be as unlike a machine as possible: creative, critical and socially skilled. So why are children being taught to behave like machines? Children learn best when teaching aligns with their natural exuberance, energy and curiosity. So why are they dragooned into rows and made to sit still while they are stuffed with facts?

Things that breaks a child’s self confidence

Making your child confident is a process that needs full dedication and effort from the side of parents.Finding and correcting the factors that can affect the confidence of a child should be the first step of improving his/her confidence.This can be anything from the family itself or from the friends, relatives or even teachers.

Why does the United States still let 12-year-olds get married?

U.S. lawmakers are strongly at odds with U.S. foreign policy when it comes to child marriage. While the numbers at home are nowhere near that dire, they are disturbing. Many of the children married between 2000 and 2010 were wed to adults significantly older than they were, the data shows. At least 31 percent were married to a spouse age 21 or older.

Children who love themselves are on the road to mental health

Children in primary school are at a stage where core beliefs about themselves and the world around them are still being formed. What they begin to believe about themselves becomes, over time, their truth. So a child who develops self-beliefs such as “I am kind. I am competent. I am lovable” will likely find themselves on a path to good self-esteem.