Nursery World - Media watch (180)

It's that time of the year when children look forward to a game of conkers at playtime. But the 'nanny state' appears to have gone bonkers over conkers. The Daily Telegraph reported that two primary schools have banned them on the grounds that they could provoke nut allergies, while The Sun showed children from a primary school in Carlisle playing conkers in plastic goggles to protect them from eye injuries. Parenting organisation Raisingkids has launched a campaign this week called Back to the Table urging families to eat together after a study revealed that three out of four families have TV dinners, the Daily Express reported.

Parenting organisation Raisingkids has launched a campaign this week called Back to the Table urging families to eat together after a study revealed that three out of four families have TV dinners, the Daily Express reported.

The Sunday Herald ran a feature on a Scotland's biggest killer, heart disease. Research that links cardiovascular illness with intelligence and height has found that children with high IQs are 50 per cent less likely to have a stroke before they are 65.

Cabbage Patch Kids are set to be this year's Christmas bestseller, according to The Guardian, as parents faced with the 'aggressive march of the high-fashioned Bratz dolls' go back to the safety of toys they remember from their childhoods.

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