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Bedtime stories

Once upon a time, in a land not so very far away, storytelling ruled. Today, as watching television, playing computer games and surfing the net take up most of our time, it's the bedtime story that best preserves that storytelling magic. Denise Roberts finds out why it's so special to read bedtime stories during your family time    More


Eating together as a family

Eating together as a family seems to be a thing of past, so much so that later in the year, the government is launching an initiative to bring back the family meal. Danielle Weekes investigates how eating as a family managed to slide away from our daily lives and why it's so important for it to come back


Family learning

When eight-year-old Martin Dunston started misbehaving at school his mother's presence in the classroom, assisting her son as well as other pupils, had the effect of settling him down and giving him a new interest in his lessons.

 

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