Pinkstinks campaign calls for ban on sale of makeup toys to under eights

Group is concerned about the trend towards the promotion of gender roles and codes of colors in toys for children

Emma Moore has realized the folly of making up the children, when her daughter, then four, was given a party bag compact. When Moore came home threw it.

Now she and her twin sister, Abi, who heads the opposition group to Pinkstinks gender stereotyping of children, launched a campaign for the makeup is not sold as a toy for children less than eight years.

she said. "We call on retailers and manufacturers to start thinking on the label and to obtain the composition of shelves preschoolers

"Second, we turn to certain products such as shoes Lelli Kelly and magazines that come with the free distribution as it removes the election. And the third thing is that parents begin to think more about it. "

Pinkstinks Mumsnet has won an award at the House of Commons on Thursday night to promote the confidence of the children with previous campaigns that highlight how retailers of toys, such as the Center for Learning the early promotion of gender roles and codes of colors (pink for girls, blue for boys).

• Pinkstinks makeup noted, because the group he sees as a new and worrying trend. Abi Moore said: "The way he toys for development, especially for girls toys, you can see a change Although there are still a lot of homemade toys, toys for girls are now far from in front of a mirror. Banquet entertainment and beauty, makeup, brushing hair with a hair dryer two years. "
David Cameron has raised the profile of the issue of the sexualization of girls with a speech, while in opposition in 2010 and last year as prime minister who supported the recommendations of a report commissioned by the Mother's Union boss Reg Bailey, called Let children be children. The products included padded bras and pole dancing kits, have been withdrawn from sale after public protests.

Pinkstinks But he believes that there has been little progress and that the pressure on girls to be beautiful is more than ever. A spokesman said: "We are not scientists, we can not speak from experience and what people are saying, but it is not surprising that when girls are nourished by this very young and impressionable This means these messages on being a girl and a woman have an impact. "

Justine Roberts, founder and CEO of Mumsnet, said: "Children have always mucked around on the composition of their mothers in a sort of costume and if not we would be po-before you forget it is a normal part of role play, etc.. "

But she agreed with that in the context Pinkstinks girls increasingly concerned about their appearance and weight, encouraging them to play with makeup was probably a bad idea.

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The Saturday interview: Professor Mary Beard

With his new TV series on the lives of ordinary Romans, Professor Mary Beard wants to deal with the story differently. Favorite classics of the nation further negotiations to Stuart Jeffries

"I tend Twitter," says professor of classics at Cambridge as we walk to the departure lounge at Heathrow airport terminal five. But that's not all good news. One reason for the beard Mary is a trend that some viewers were uncomfortable about what appears on Meet the Romans, the daughter of three-part BBC2 television series that began Tuesday.

"I received tweets like" Can not brush her hair? "" Should not be itself a bit of sex determination? '' Does it look so haggard? Fortunately, I have a thick skin Sometimes you think you write this after half a bottle of wine, and I want to write again, after more than half a bottle. "Actually, that's what a woman 57 years of age appears."

not do that, I advise you. "Well, I have a different approach to the tweets to me personally, this is where I am the hashtag". But what if someone tweets personally criticize your appearance? "Then I will write back saying," What do you mean, really? "It must work on his tweets returned.

In all cases, Beard wrote more strongly on their appearance than their detractors. In the Guardian what I see when I look in the mirror column last month, wrote that sometimes, "my mother is old, who winked back, with the teeth of tombstones big as mine and Gill's uncompromising ... wrinkles, his legs of birds, hunched shoulders (all these wasted years hunched over a desk in the library) ... I used to fear looking like that, but now they might desire to be different. "

Beard

is easily detected by the crowds at Heathrow. She is the woman with glasses texting while sporting untied unbleached gray hair, red jacket and dress significantly structured gray and black. She rocked the look, the phone and glasses, however, on television this week.

"dress The only advice I received was to use something that would make me think of the crowd -. Therefore, the red cape" But the camera loves him, not because that it polishes his command of his subject with Hotsy totsiness-like other university physical telegeneic (Brian Cox and Helen Czerski, or friend of Beard, Bettany Hughes classic colleague), but for something more unusual. It is an anti-autocutie, ungussied refreshing when looking through the mess on the Monte Testaccio, garbage dump in ancient Rome.

know what you think - hashtags, trends, dress codes spectator friendly television? What is Epictetus? Should not the review of Professor Beard amphorae examined fragments of Cicero instead of television strategies and research for social media? "I'm really in a classical tradition with a great public figure who like to pontificate," she replies.

She cites as a classic example suffragist Jane Harrison (1850-1928), who taught at the college all-female Newnham, and Barba describes in his autobiography as "a means ... [of England] first "career woman" academic career. "It would have been on Twitter all the time. Once I gave a lecture on Greek tombstones in Glasgow in front of 2,000 people. "It's unfair, says Beard, to reflect on their professional predecessors as obsolete forms of life." We believe that their lives as glacially slow, but probably have not been given five items a day .. It would be a response to a letter noon tomorrow "

This is the great theme of Beard: to confuse the liberal notion of history that we have become faster, healthier and communication technologies are more sophisticated than our ancestors loser. "We think of our lives as something natural, not built, while the life of the Romans were not natural and is based on myths. This is not true in any number."

She learned to doubt the vision of our society in the past when I was very young. "My mother took me to the British Museum for five years," she says. "I thought people in the past were not as good as us, and then I saw the Elgin Marbles. Suddenly the world seemed more complicated. " He also visited the Egyptian galleries, where a staff member took a package and if unpackaged. "The bread charred 2800 years. He gave me a thrill ... Even today, when I have a ring that was 2000 years ago someone, I get excited. "Why is it a classic?" I was very good in Latin in school, and because I was good at it I have more and better than ever interested in it. When I was 12 was very satisfying to be in control. "

under study ancient history, bearded, is to learn who we are as they were our ancestors. For example, during the series, which examines a gynecological speculum Roman. "The questions are for me," What is the woman on the receiving end of those who think about the body that had Do you know how conception occurs there an idea of ??medical technology? Thinking in this sense is reflected in us. History is reflected if it is worth. Women today differs from it and if so, how? "The final program will consider the marriage of ancient Rome. "Some girls were 12 or 13 when they married what we call pedophilia. They called it the marriage is one of the interesting things about the Roman culture is different from ours ... "

round off the edge, my beard Roman tells a joke. "A man meets another on the street and said." I thought you were dead "?" Do not you see I'm alive "The guy said, The first replies". But the person who told me you were dead is more reliable than you "I killed in Rome 4BC. Barbara takes the joke to have a serious point: "You realize that in Roman society, where identity cards or passports, not to demonstrate their existence requires different criteria demonstrated a reliable person was perhaps the more stronger than I had .. was very different from our society, but who can tell what was worse? "

• throughout the series in its emphasis is not on the emperors, politicians or generals, but what it called "slaves, women and other undesirables." That said, it is not pious about how the figures of Rome in recent popular culture. It will not denounce butchly pecced Russell Crowe Maximus Decimus Meridius or the last words of Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar in Carry on Cleo ("the Infamy, infamy - they all have what I have in my place "). She actually refrains from attacking Boris Johnson. "In fairness to Boris, who does a lot for America. It could be a high price to pay ... "People do not tweet brushing hair, too. What about the classics?
• "emperors fixed in the minds of people a version of Roman culture," says Barba. "They were more cruel and more luxurious than we do. Thus, a function is that Rome must be larger than life. " Now he wants to take things in a different direction. Only 600 Roman senators, but Rome had a population of one million. "Can we take a look at others?" He asks.
• In the first episode that sees slavery. The Greeks thought that the Romans were strangers to the release of many slaves, but that the policy made the city a multicultural melting pot, a company that, for all its social ills, was perhaps less than the sclerotic ours. It argues that slavery, although brutal, was for many foreigners a rite of passage. "We mostly see slavery in terms of what happened in the southern United States, where he was distinguished race, but Rome was not -. Greeks, Jews and others were slaves and at least a finite freedom to become the Romans .. "However, it suggests there was a marked difference between the multicultural society and ours. "Rome would not allow the different cultures that separately."

Approximately 1.8 million viewers watched the first episode. The critics were enthusiastic, too. Lucy Mangan guard was hit so more she broke the first rule of television criticism - not to fall into the subject. "I deeply love the beard of the professor," Mangan wrote, adding that his beard was like a father bird "regurgitating the work of a lifetime in pellets soft and digestible for the public high chirping."

regurgitate pellets

not mean dumbing down? "No, when I talk to the camera is not very different from giving a lecture to 150 freshmen who have a little Latin in school. They are great kids, smart, but for the interest in 1BC policy that you have to realize that they are a captive audience and could be Twitter, in the back row, unless you get their attention. not make much distinction between the public. "

that historians of television bitten the proverbial couch? "I do not support programs David Starkey," said Beard. You can see why: Starkey rarely worthwhile to examine ponceathon junk outside the court of the Tudors. "I am glad we live in a world where Starkey and beard. Although I did not see it. "

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Will 'wellbeing measure' allow charities to prove their worth?

New Philanthropy Capital agreement has created a tool that helps charities to demonstrate that their work is worth funding

Two weeks after returning from a course with the Foundation Outward Bound in North Wales Academy Shenley year 8 students are keen to improve the life of one week rock climbing, hiking expeditions Broken-and night. Jack Davis said he had not realized how it could be determined, Charlie Hannam was surprised by his own mental strength and Callum Wallace discovered that rather enjoyed being a leader.

The impact of travel is very strong for the 12 - and 13-years. Charlotte Owen said she often used to feel embarrassed, but gained so much confidence that he plans to audition for the musical evening in South Birmingham school.

These glowing testimonials are useful for charity, but as an environment increasingly austere funding, puts them under greater pressure to prove the value of their work, anecdotal evidence may not be enough.

Therefore, in Shenley, 160 students from 8 years were also documented the impact of travel on the data form. A "measure of welfare" allows new organizations that work with 11 to 16 years to track changes over time in areas such as self esteem, strength and satisfaction with family life and community

Youth are encouraged to first check to what extent they agreed or disagreed with a series of statements - "I feel my life has a sense of purpose" and "I want to live Moreover, "for example - before it regardless of the work or activity, the group offers. Questions must be answered again a few weeks after it is completed.

• For each area of ??protection, the group surveyed is given a score between zero and 100. Over time, complete with a set of results before they activity or course, and one after - hopefully show an improvement. So far, at least 3,000 young people across the UK have responded to the survey, through more than 40 organizations, including Action for Children, Save the Children and Toynbee Hall, a community organization working to eradicate poverty in East London. Most are charities, but some schools and youth groups have also signed.
• "Budgets are reduced and there are all these movements results-based initiatives and performance pay for people who are easy ways to measure what we do," says John Copps, who leads the team in the New Philanthropy Capital Accord (NPA), which created the measurement of well-being. "If you are a charity based soft skills such as self-esteem improved, allowing the tool to quantify these things."

NPC is not the only organization to measure well-being. The National Statistics Office will make the "happiness index" the first official release in July. Prime Minister insists that this index could lead to policy that is "focused not only on the bottom line, but in all these things that make life worthwhile. "

Outward Bound and has nearly 1,000 young people through a questionnaire. "It helps us stand out from the crowd," said Emma Ferris, head of the organization's impact assessment.

an evaluation of the responses of 691 young people showed that girls were more improvements in self-esteem, emotional well-being and resilience to go on outdoor-related courses than boys .

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The Republicans who want ignorance to get equal time in schools | Diane Roberts

Education is the new enemy Republican. No more freedom of thought and empirical evidence, that the Bible, rumor and Fox News

Not content to simply make war on women, the Republicans are targeting another enemy of conservatism: education. New Hampshire State Republican Jerry Bergevin recently attacked science and intellectuals who call themselves atheists teachers: "I want the complete picture of the evolution and the people who came up with the ideas presented is a worldview and a atheist. ".

While New Hampshire does have just passed the anti-evolution Bergevin, Tennessee did. Its new status allows, even encourages - teachers to express skepticism, as Bill said, "scientific issues, including but not limited to, biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, and global climate ". The American Institute of Biological Sciences, National Science Teachers Association of the Earth, the National Center for Science Education in Tennessee and eight members of the National Academy of Sciences to oppose the new law, calling it of "bad education." But they have not "pagan elite doctoral Darwinites know the government of Tennessee wants you to know that is not related to a monkey.

Tennessee, you will recall, is proud of the "Monkey Trial" of 1925 in the famous John Scopes, a high school teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution science. These days the forces of anti-thought is not simply deny science, requiring that ignorance is given simultaneously. David Fowler, a former state senator and head of the action of the family of Council of Tennessee, who helped draft the bill with the help of a leading group called creationist (without perceptible irony) Discovery Institute complains that the Tennessee manuals call the Genesis account of a "myth of creation "- as opposed to revealed truth. In addition, teachers do not have a "balance" of evolution. Do not have a "balanced" view of the laws of gravity, the speed of light and the fact that the earth revolves around the sun, either.

And speaking of heliocentrism, James Inhofe of Oklahoma likes to compare with Galileo Galilei. He continued by proclaiming that "global warming is a hoax." The shape of the prosecution is not very clear: a U.S. senator is moving cash courtesy of oil and gas companies. This somehow qualifies him to say that while 97% of scientists agree on anthropogenic climate change, which "does not mean anything." His peer-reviewed journal of choice is the Bible, "Genesis 8:22:" as long as the earth remains, there will be spring and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night "My point is, even God. there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings would be able to change what the weather for me is outrageous. "

• God better to move to Florida. It is the state most vulnerable to the effects of glacial melting and sea level rise, what is a peninsula surrounded on three sides by the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. More than 2.5 million people live along the coast and perhaps soon to share digs with dolphins. However, the Republican governor of Florida has just vetoed a bill to cap and trade may have begun to address the issue. Maybe he is looking on the bright side, anticipating the day at Disney World will be the property facing the sea

In other parts of America, the executors to know anything was decided that they want doctors to lie to their patients. Lawmakers in Kansas and New Hampshire have ordered that doctors tell women seeking abortions that the procedure causes breast cancer. Whatever is not true, at least according to the American Cancer Society, the World Health Organization, the National Cancer Institute, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists .

In Arizona, Republicans in the state government rewrote the basic biology, decreeing that pregnancy actually begins before conception. Instead of waiting until the Lord does the happy dance with Mrs. sperm egg, Arizona will be to define a child as "calculated from the first day of last menstrual period," meaning it could be officially preggers one or two weeks before having sex. Why you ask, Arizona legislators want to do this? Because pregnancy of 18 weeks duration could be defined as 20 weeks - and abortions are prohibited after 20 weeks. Genius.
But the state has not been limited to the adoption of simple medical stupidity, covering censorship and misinformation and history. Republicans in the state government, concerned that children "of a particular ethnic group" (meaning Latinos) have learned that the Americans stole their land, outside the law "ethnic studies" in 2011. Of course, the fact is that the Americans stole their land - Arizona was part of Mexico governed by the Alta California until the U.S. invaded expansionary in 1846. According to the 2010 census, the Latin American children now constitute the majority in public schools in Arizona, but they learn about their heritage is apparently equivalent to advocate overthrowing the government of the United States.

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Truancy crackdown to include children aged four

Government to publish the figures for the year in the absence of receipt, while the behavior consultant shows that children do not attend day care

Children as young as four people who lost day care or the year of receipt of the school will be a new crackdown on truancy -. Although education is not compulsory until the age of five, the government announced

figures on attendance at the reception, when children are between four and five, will be published by the Ministry of Education so that schools can judge their performance in the absence of students.

In a report widely accepted by ministers, government adviser on the behavior of experts, Charlie Taylor, also requires schools to offer support to parents who fail to take their children to daycare .

Taylor does not require the age of compulsory education is low and there is no legal penalty for skipping school below the age of five.

However, when presenting his report on truancy, drew attention to a possible penalty: "I was at a school in Battersea, the other day, very difficult, effectively closed the door to parents if their children who are late say you can not enter the nursery at the end seems very difficult - but .. school attendance was 97%, well above the national average there is a job [is] in terms of parental awareness., teaching them that school is important and that's where we must be. "

Taylor argued that the lack of care left the children as "a puzzle with many pieces that have not been fulfilled."

"missing part of the nursery means you are missing out on some of the principles of learning, some social skills that are essential to children's temperament and ability to operate in the room classroom.

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"There are children who come to kindergarten who do not know his name literally do not know his own name, so that the school has an important job to do. Education in children is also essential that the week before GCSE. "

Currently there are no national data collected in the care of children in the nursery and reception, before school is mandatory.

The government accepted the recommendation to publish these numbers so that schools can be compared. Ofsted must also attend the reception during the year a school is inspected, Taylor said.

• The government adviser has recommended that fines for truancy must be deducted from the compensation. But it is unclear whether this proposal will be accepted.
• In a statement, Education Secretary Michael Gove said that the only government "to explore ways to make payment of the penalty score quickly and safely."

Taylor, who is seconded from his post as director of a special school in west London, was asked to look absenteeism Gove after the riots last summer.

Taylor said. "Many children involved in the disturbances had been excluded from school or who have been excluded from school and I think one of the main things I found is that many of these models care for the poor start very soon. "

The report also recommends that the chains of the academy, sponsors and maintained academies and schools, should be able to prosecute parents for truancy. Currently this is handled by local authorities.
period of vacation time should be granted only in exceptional cases, says Taylor.

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Simpsons creator reveals the real Springfield

Matt Groening Interview in years with the Smithsonian Magazine, a place that has revealed the true excitement of the city is based on

Tales from Homer Simpson and his family have been integrated into the traditional television, the goal Where Have you ever wondered Springfield, the hometown of the Simpsons Illustrious, is really based on?

The city of Springfield

became a character in his own television show on the popular animated, serving as backdrop to the adventures of the Simpson family. Target of 23 years on air, the creator of the show kept the actual location of the city veiled, AND I did not say "mess" for people - until now.

In an interview

years with the Smithsonian Magazine issue of May, Matt Groening animation has revealed that the city is based in Springfield, Oregon, near the historic hometown of Portland.

aussi He said he was inspired to use the name of the city after it was featured on the television show Father Knows Best 1950.

"aussi I thought Springfield was one of the most common names for a city in the U.S. In anticipation of the success of the show, I thought, 'This Will Be Cool , everyone will think it is their Springfield. And they do, "said Creator of the show.

• Tales donut loving father Homer J. Simpson and his dysfunctional family, Marge wife and children Bart, Lisa and Maggie, have become a staple of American culture, winning 27 Emmy Awards, earning a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and even typing a new word the words of Homer "to O" Entered Oxford English Dictionary in 2011.
• The Simpsons
are named after Groening's family - father Homer (Greek poet Homer named after), Margaret's mother and sisters, Lisa and Maggie.

Bart is based on the Creator Himself, although Groening changed the name of "Matt" to "Bart" because he "had this idea of ??an angry father yelling" Bart " , and Bart seems a bit like bark bark like a dog ", and ET thought it would sound funny.

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Strictly bhangra: how daytimers got young British Asians dancing

His parents thought they were studying. However, thousands of British Asians adopted the 80 and 90 dance before returning to tea

Those were the days of disco, a time when dance music took in the UK. But the young British Asians come of age during the 1980s and 1990s had, in the parents whole, conservatives who disapproved of their children sweaty nightclubs, getting drunk and connect with the opposite sex.

repressive In this context, something new was learned that go unnoticed by the general public: club events where thousands of young Asian bhangra music is heard - especially - played by orchestras and later by DJs. These events took place not at night but during the afternoon, when children were examined at the university, school or library. And was baptized and daily agendas.

"They were a national phenomenon," said Rajinder Dudrah, author of Bhangra: Birmingham and beyond. "In Nottingham, Bradford, London, Manchester, Birmingham and Luton, the children boarded buses to go to a club where there would be 2000 Asian dance. The trick was to come back spotless, as if nothing had past, so that "live to tell about it."

• Rav, a DJ and radio announcer with music collective Punjabi Hit Squad, and then studied in London diaries. "You tell her parents that he stayed late at school," she says. "Then I went in his uniform, on a bus, paying 10 pounds, has a house rave, and be 6:00 p.m. ".
Gursharanpal Singh Chana, better known today as the photographer and writer Boy Chana, a teenager in Birmingham when he found diaries. "It took place on Wednesday afternoon when schools have free time," he says. "We tell our parents, we went to class, but we went to the party." Ruby Begum, who grew up in London, I would go to the library. "Girls of Asia had to keep her hidden personality, but once we got to the club that we could be free."

This Saturday, the Daytimer is back for one day, at the Southbank Centre in London. BBC Radio 1 and Asian Network DJ Nihal organized the event as part of Alchemy Center Festival, which celebrates the art of the Indian subcontinent. The Daytimer be free of alcohol and halal food, focusing on music, especially the cream of what has been called Burban: Brown urban music. Although the event will include the participation of adolescents who may not be aware of the history of daily, there will be a similar function: to give young people access to music that Asians are not usually the opportunity to discover live. "This is an opportunity for them to see artists like Shizzio, Kaden Junai Shide and Boss," says Nihal. "They have a huge fan base among young Muslim women who would not normally be able to go to concerts. "

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