Child wellbeing still nearly the worst in Europe.

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I think it's an attitude problem with the Brits. We all cherish our children, but I think we need to learn to cherish children generally.
It's really noticable abroad that people seem to actually LIKE children, and talk to and interact with them in a way that just doesn't happen in this country.
I think we all need to make a concerted effort just to talk to children (and hope we don't all get branded crazy or paedophiles!).
If we treated children like members of the community, perhaps they'd feel like part of the community, feel wanted and generally a bit happier.

placed in a workhouse peachy? really?! sure they weren't um joking?

BonsoirAnna - no, it isn't important in the great scheme of things, I just used it as an example of the general attitude in the UK that children shouldn't be involved in the adult world at all. I also enjoy eating out with DD and she loves it too, but we often get disapproving looks when we go to restaurants with her (though only in the UK funnily enough).

I think the bedtime thing has alot to do with weather. We don't do siestas as we don't have the same need to get out of the midday heat, then it tends to be colder in the evenings so less likely to be out and about.

I agree with the restaurtant thing though, I've just moved away from Edinburgh, generally a very child friendly place, (loved it there!) but trying to find a child friendly place to eat in the evenings was virtually impossible. Many places used the excuse that it was difficult to get a license to allow children after 8pm, which makes me think it's something the government should be looking to improve.

sea no, but it was in context of a wider thread about benefits clamants... people placed in wh until they could get a job

but you know, it takes all sorts

I read today that parlty why the health score came out so low is because of the low uptake of immunisations.
Gotta go now, but there were some other bits I read that also made me think about the validity of the entire report; I had it on screen this morning but haven't had time to read it!

Yes I read through it and some things started to seem odd. We scored badly on health to some extent because of low take up of jabs and on education because of small amount of under threes in nursery.
Hmmmm.