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Why mothers post about their children on social media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mothers post about their children on social media

...research shows it is mothers who post more information about their children on social media – particularly when it comes to family photos. It’s also mothers who are largely the focus of disapproval and judgement for their sharenting. Those irritated by sharenting describe posts as “dull”, “repetitive” and “just plain annoying”. Some find it irritating...
Why getting active with children is good for parents too
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why getting active with children is good for parents too

...centres, the children are being active but the parents are separate and do not or cannot get involved. The Wales Active Early Years project put parents at the centre, showing them how they can lead the activity and encouraging them to be active outside the sessions too. Positive outcomes for everyone [A woman and a child playing on a playground.] As part of the...
How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?

...children with some guidance and advice...Find out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Not everyone experiences grief in the same way. Whilst under-researched, there is evidence that neurodivergent people may experience grief, as well as the social practices around death and bereavement, differently from others. This is thought to...
Do music lessons help with children's other classes?
Education & Development

Do music lessons help with children's other classes?

...research which suggests picking up an instrument can improve children's educational performance across the board. But is there really any proof?...Music is one of the most beautiful and powerful creations of humankind, and its powers are well known – making us happy and sad or relaxed and excited. And more generally, music can induce powerful feelings – as Bono the...
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...Children’s Parliament researchers who helped to make this film recognised this and provided a variety of ways to help the children express themselves, such as by offering them crayons to draw with and other ways to put their views across. People who work with children, or those who conduct research with and about them, learn many different techniques to help them hear...
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...Children: An Exploratory Qualitative Study’, Pain Research and Management Article ID 5476425. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/5476425. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Posters How you can help your child if they are in pain in hospital: Royal College of Nursing, The Open University, Edge Hill University, Alder Hey Children's Hospital Animations...
Who makes the difficult decisions about children’s treatment?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Who makes the difficult decisions about children’s treatment?

...children’s treatment. In the end whose decision is it to proceed with a treatment or not? The medical team are the experts in the treatment, the parents have expertise in their children and a responsibility to act in their best interests, but then it is the children and young people who have to actually undergo the treatment and any associated pain – and have their...
Revealed: what sexism in call centres can teach us about sexism in society
Society, Politics & Law

Revealed: what sexism in call centres can teach us about sexism in society

...centres operate on the sexist attitudes embedded in society argues Dr Anna Kristina Hultgren, Senior Lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics at The Open University...Although you are likely to have dealt with both male and female call centre agents, the fact is that 71% of workers in the global call centre industry are female. Dubbed the “female ghetto”...