Via the SHEU I’ve been directed to a website which is aimed at the parents of 5th to 8th graders – 10 to 14 year olds.
The site has tips for parents who are hosting the party and where children are going to someone elses party. It also has a range of party games and food.
Here are the first three rules (out of eighteen) they suggest if your child is the host:
A parent should be present
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Young people and alcohol: meanings, practices and contexts.
Good things? I dunno – there aren’t many good things really, nothing really happens. Well – the drink and stuff like that… when people have fights and things like that but – nothing, like there’s no, like, things for kids to do round here and, with the drink, everyone just seems to have a drink on a Friday and that’s it really.
Young woman, 16
Somehow I
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What does ‘not working’ mean?.
A story from Newsround, the news for Radio One, (supporting the programme above) suggests that the government’s message on cannabis isn’t getting through:
The government has spent millions trying to warn young people about the risks of smoking cannabis, but despite high-profile television campaigns, it remains the most commonly used illegal drug in the UK.
Figures show that last year
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