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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...family has been a key social institution across human history, and transition stages, when new family members are born or when family members die or existing family members age and change roles, are common to all societies. The marking of transition stages are vastly diverse in nature, but naming ceremonies of babies have occurred right around the world over many...
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Why getting active with children is good for parents too
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why getting active with children is good for parents too

...families off onto a lifelong ‘physical literacy’ journey. Physical literacy is all about supporting everyone to develop a lifelong love of movement, helping them to be active wherever and however they want to. An important aspect of this is recognising that physical activity is not the same as sport. Feedback from parents involved in the project showed that they had...
About Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

About Earth In Vision

...history with broadcasting written into the script. To this end, we have made three ebooks which draw directly on our sample of fifty hours of BBC programmes. The ebooks will be free to download, and will link to a website holding a sample of resources and archive content for free public use. Along with the programmes themselves we have been working in the BBC’s paper...
How does nature tell the time?
Nature & Environment

How does nature tell the time?

...history. My lifetime probably won’t last beyond 100 years if I’m lucky. But did you know that something we see nearly every day will far out live us. Not only that but it will see numerous of generations live and die - the tree. [Cathy and tree] Trees have been growing on earth since before the human population arrived. This tree is 400 years old, which means that it...
The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...history, of civilisation have become emblematic of modernity and rational knowledge, their majestic architecture, part cathedral, part stately home, and their neat displays of objects organised along taxonomic and/or evolutionary principles. When did the idea arise that museums and their exhibitions could be viewed as technologies themselves for self-improvement and a...
Where do we get the help that really counts?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Where do we get the help that really counts?

...family and friends just as good? ...Quite often talking is the best form of therapy and having someone who knows you, who you can confide in and can talk back to you on a personal level based on the fact they know you, can sometimes be very comforting. (Service user quoted in Leach, 2015) [two people hugging in black and white] BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind programme,...
Why has the welfare cap become so complex?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has the welfare cap become so complex?

...families introduced in April 2013 has been one of the most supported policies introduced by the coalition. By setting the maximum eligibility at the median household income and excluding those working over 16 hours (24, if two workers) voters saw it as an equitable constraint which could, with support, also help people to better their circumstances by finding work. The...
Free Activity Cards
Education & Development

Free Activity Cards

...Families Float or Sink? Knickerbockerglory [PDF File] Download Play Families card (130 KB) [PDF File] Download Float or Sink? card (130 KB) [PDF File] Download Knickerbockerglory card (109 KB) What's In The Mind? Relaxation Storytelling [PDF File] Download What's In The Mind? card (83 KB) [PDF File] Download Relaxation card (109 KB) [PDF File] Download Storytelling card...