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| Friday 10 May 2013 |
What’s worse than bullying?
Anti-bullying intervention
Emily Bazelon’s new book makes a powerful, eloquent case against too much adult meddling in children’s spats and scraps.
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| Thursday 10 January 2013 |
Does watching TV give you cancer? Of course not
News reports claiming that TV-addicted kids risk getting cancer confirm that the scaremongers mean business in 2013. It’s time to fight back.
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| Wednesday 17 October 2012 |
Switch off the junk science, not the TV
The recent claim that too much television is bad for children is just another policy agenda dressed up as science.
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| Thursday 19 April 2012 |
The National Trust’s imagination deficit
The conservation charity is right to celebrate outdoor play, but the idea of ‘nature-deficit disorder’ is nonsense.
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| Monday 16 January 2012 |
Ignore these pedlars of panic – the kids are all right
Report after report tells us that children are sad, lost and in need of expert intervention. Real-world evidence suggests otherwise.
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| Thursday 24 November 2011 |
Anti-bullying campaigns: doing more harm than good?
ESSAY: Of course extreme cases of bullying should be tackled, but let’s not pathologise normal childhood relationships.
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| Friday 24 June 2011 |
Animals don’t have morality, people do
In his attempt to prove that beasts have morals, Dale Peterson airbrushes away all the things that make humans unique in the animal kingdom.
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| Friday 17 June 2011 |
Animals don’t have morality, people do
In his attempt to prove that beasts have morals, Dale Peterson airbrushes away all the things that make humans unique in the animal kingdom.
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| Friday 11 February 2011 |
The chasm between great apes and people
For all the claims that apes and humans are genetically ‘98.5 per cent the same’, there is still an unfathomable gap between us.
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| Friday 28 January 2011 |
The chasm that separates great apes from humans
Jon Cohen’s new book reminds us that, for all the claims that apes and human beings are ‘98.5 per cent the same’ in terms of genetics, there is still an unfathomable gap between us.
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| Wednesday 3 November 2010 |
Animals are useless, unless humans make use of them
We have built cities, cured diseases and created art, yet some people think humans are worth no more than apes.
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| Thursday 19 August 2010 |
Orang-utans are not remotely like humans
Experts should know better than to claim that great apes can communicate in a similar way to human beings.
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| Thursday 8 July 2010 |
Set children free — by trusting adults
We can only give kids the independence they need if we have faith in other people to look out for them.
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| Thursday 29 April 2010 |
Monkeys mourning? Don’t make me laugh
A handful of chimp mothers carrying around their dead babies is not evidence of ‘human-like’ qualities.
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| Friday 12 March 2010 |
This isn’t racism. It’s just kids being kids
A new book explodes the myth of racist children and reveals how anti-racist initiatives in British schools have split pupils into ethnic camps.
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| Friday 26 February 2010 |
Racialising the playground
A brave new book challenges the introduction of anti-racist policies in British schools, arguing that they blow everyday spats out of proportion and split kids along ethnic lines.
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| Wednesday 29 July 2009 |
Bullying the public
The latest NSPCC/ChildLine initiative on bullied children presents both adults and kids as toxic beings.
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| Friday 24 July 2009 |
Restating the case for human uniqueness
Despite all the media hype about ‘clever chimps’ using tools and feeling emotions, in truth there is nothing remotely human about primates.
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| Friday 26 June 2009 |
Restating the case for human uniqueness
A brilliant new book cuts through all the media-oriented research about ‘clever chimps’ using tools, doing maths and feeling emotions, and reminds us that, in truth, there is nothing remotely human about primates.
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| Friday 24 April 2009 |
It’s time to move beyond the nature/nurture divide
In advising parents to ignore hectoring experts, Judith Rich Harris’s book still packs a punch 10 years on. But its use of evolutionary theory and social psychology to explain how people are ‘shaped’ leaves much to be desired.
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