I’m sorry, but…
…it’s about bloody time, isn’t it?
We’ve known this for years - and they’re only just figuring it out. If we’re lucky, they’ll do something about it in a decade or two.
Bah.
Mothers got wrong advice for 40 years - Sunday Times - Times Online
BREAST-FEEDING mothers have been given potentially harmful advice on infant nutrition for the past 40 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has admitted.
Charts used in Britain for decades to advise mothers on a baby?s optimum size have been based on the growth rates of infants fed on formula milk.
The organisation now says the advice given to millions of breast-feeding mothers was distorted because babies fed on formula milk put on weight far faster.
Edited, to add another example!
Survey ignites school age debate
Research by Glasgow City Council has found that boys in particular could be put off learning for life if they go to primary school before they are ready.
Children and teachers in 50 primary schools were involved in the study.
The author of the report - educational psychologist Alan McClean - said no child should start school before the age of five.
He also suggested that boys start school at the age of six, a year later than girls.
It’s even worse here: they start school - proper school, that is, sit-down-and-do-your-work school - at four. In fact it was my conviction that it would destroy George’s spirit to be forced into a classroom at four years and two months that led us to look for an alternative, and that’s how we found home-education.
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I heartily agree. When Roo was little I took her to Mother and Toddlers group (mainly to meet other Mum’s) The talk there was of how soon they could go to playschool. It seems to me that school is nothing but a free baby-sitting service to some. It used to be that kids went to school at five. Then they started nursery at three or four to ‘get them ready’ for school. Now they go to sodding playschool at two to ‘get them ready’ for nursery! What next, will they be snatching them from us at birth to put them in some god-awful “Babyschool”? *Shudders.*