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wist@diasp.org
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A quotation from Travers, P. L.

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for — if you are honest — you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

P. L. Travers (1899-1996) Australian-British writer [Pamela Lyndon Travers; b. Helen Lyndon Goff]
Essay (1978-07-02), “I Never Wrote for Children,” New York Times

#quote #quotes #quotation #audience #books #childhood #children #literature #maturity #writing
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nadloriot@diaspora.psyco.fr
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Sian Davey - Looking for Alice

J'ai craqué pour cette série de photos qui raconte sa relation avec sa fille Alice atteinte de trisomie.
I fell in love with this series of photos that tells the story of her relationship with her daughter Alice, who has Down's syndrome.

#art #photo #photographie #photography #Davey #SianDavey #enfance #famille #handicap #childhood #family

https://www.siandavey.com/looking-for-alice

Looking For Alice — The Garden

An award winning project, which tells the story of Davey’s daughter Alice Davey born with Down’s Syndrome.

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kuchinster@rusx.org
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British children in prisons

A 13-year-old girl is due to appear at Basingstoke magistrates court on Tuesday to face a charge of violent disorder over a protest in Aldershot, Hampshire Police said.

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is from Aldershot. It comes after reports of disorder outside Potters International Hotel on 31 July. A 40-year-old man, Steven Tiquin, will also appear at the court charged with assaulting police officers.

In Northern Ireland, an 11-year-old boy has been charged with rioting and throwing petrol bombs and will appear at Belfast youth court on 6 September.

The milestone of 1,000 arrests in relation to the recent disorder is expected to be reached imminently. So far, 975 people have been arrested and 546 charged, the National Police Chiefs’ Council said on Monday.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/12/boy-12-admits-participating-in-two-scenes-of-violent-disorder-in-manchester

#uk #britain #england #children #childhood in #prison for #dictatorship of #deepstate #capitalism #imperialism against #human-rights

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

The Revolution Has Begun in the UK - by daisy greenwell

#health #childhood #surveillance #freedom

In the UK, 24% of 5-7-year-olds own a smartphone. By age 12, just about everyone (97%) owns one. A few days before that post, my friend Clare Fernyhough and I had started a WhatsApp group called Parents United for a Smartphone Free Childhood, in an attempt to support each other in holding back the digital tide.

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-revolution-has-begun-in-the-uk

The Revolution Has Begun in the UK

75,000 UK parents have come together to give their kids a smartphone-free childhood

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anonymiss@despora.de
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End the Phone-Based #Childhood Now

source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/

Once young people began carrying the entire internet in their pockets, available to them day and night, it altered their daily experiences and developmental pathways across the board. Friendship, dating, sexuality, exercise, sleep, academics, politics, family dynamics, identity—all were affected. Life changed rapidly for younger #children, too, as they began to get access to their #parents’ smartphones and, later, got their own iPads, laptops, and even smartphones during elementary #school.

#technology #news #change #humanity #future #society #smartphone #problem

End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

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wist@diasp.org
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A quotation from Orwell, George

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have pass the age of thirty five are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
“Such, Such Were the Joys” (1948)

#quote #quotes #quotation #adult #childhood #age #aging #perspective
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"Such, Such Were the Joys" (1948) - Orwell, George | WIST

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have pass the age of

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‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood | Family | The Guardian

In 1976, Suzanne Heywood’s father decided to take the family on a three-year sailing ‘adventure’ – and then just kept going. It was a journey into fear, isolation and danger …

Wow crazy story. Really tough woman.
#sailing #childhood #family

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/25/suzanne-heywood-round-the-world-sailing-trip-stolen-childhood

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