Security forces in Cambodia have killed a teenage girl during a clash with villagers armed with axes and crossbows in the latest of a series of violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development. Reports said that during a clash between up to 400 soldiers and police and villagers in Kratie province in the east [...]
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Cambodian security forces kill teenage girl during clash with villagers armed with axes and crossbows – The Independent
Posted on 17 May 2012.
Posted in Child Protection, Death and Bereavement, Teenagers, World News0 Comments
Teenager, 15, faces life behind bars after stabbing Steven Grisales to death in row over conkers | Mail Online
Posted on 17 May 2012.
A 15-year-old youth is facing a life sentence after being found guilty of stabbing a student to death in a row over conkers. The youth was found guilty at the Old Bailey of murdering architecture student Steven Grisales, 21. Mr Grisales died after he went over to remonstrate with three boys throwing conkers still in [...]
Posted in Child behaviour, Child Protection, Death and Bereavement, Family, Parents, Teenagers0 Comments
Tyra Banks says her 17-year-old size four frame would be considered too heavy for runways today | Mail Online
Posted on 16 May 2012.
Women’s empowerment guru, Tyra Banks, has spoken out in support of Vogue’s decision to ban rail thin models from its pages. The 38-year-old media mogul and former supermodel praised the fashion glossy’s 19 editors today for banding together to put a stop to ‘thinspirational’ editorial and called for a toast ‘over some barbecue and burgers’. [...]
Posted in Child Protection, Food and Diet, Health, Media and Celebrity, Teenagers, TV, Theatre and Film0 Comments
Fatal flaws that led to carnage at gates of Tottenham school – Evening Standard
Posted on 16 May 2012.
A schizophrenic who knifed a schoolboy to death and wounded three other pupils after failing to take his medication was today jailed for at least 20 years. Serif Aslan stabbed Kasey Gordon, 15, in the heart in front of horrified shoppers. Aslan, 34, who was free to roam the streets despite a long history of [...]
Posted in At School, Child Protection, Death and Bereavement, Teenagers0 Comments
Parent’s job loss has ‘significant’ impact on child’s exam results, research finds – Telegraph
Posted on 16 May 2012.
A study led by a University of Bristol academic found that a child’s educational achievements can be harmed when a father loses his job. Using British Cohort Study data, Professor Paul Gregg studied job losses during the 1980s recession to assess the impact of unemployment on children’s academic performance. The research found that children [...]
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Oxford students told to end ‘slovenly practice’ of wearing pyjamas at breakfast | Mail Online
Posted on 16 May 2012.
IT is the sort of louche behaviour Brideshead Revisited’s Sebastian Flyte might have revelled in during his Oxford days. But today’s pyjama-clad students drifting in to the dining hall for breakfast at Brasenose College face a dressing down. Laminated signs have appeared warning students to end the ‘slovenly practice’ of eating breakfast in their night [...]
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Inspirational bravery of terminally ill boy’s tragic farewell messages goes viral | Mail Online
Posted on 16 May 2012.
Terminally-ill Australian Shaun Wilson-Miller, 17, has become an internet sensation after accidentally posting a heartbreaking and inspirational farewell message to the world on YouTube. Shaun, who has been told by doctors he does not have long left to live after his body rejected a SECOND heart transplant, was only trying to post his tragic goodbye [...]
Posted in Childhood illnesses, Death and Bereavement, Health, Teenagers, Video and Movie trailers, World News0 Comments
Tortured by sound: Student has rare condition that makes the simplest noises unbearable | Mail Online
Posted on 16 May 2012.
While a soup slurper or sandwich chomper be irritating to most, for 19-year-old Emma Riehl, everyday noises are unbearable. She suffers from a rare disease known as misophonia, in which she simply cannot tolerate noises like chewing, swallowing, and breathing. The neurological condition, which literally means ‘the hatred of sound,’ means that many of its [...]
Posted in Health, Teenagers0 Comments
BBC accused of dumbing down Young Musician coverage – Telegraph
Posted on 16 May 2012.
The final of the competition, which was broadcast on Sunday night on BBC2, was won by teenage cellist Laura van der Heijden. However Norman Lebrecht, the arts critic and BBC Radio 3 presenter, criticised the corporation’s coverage as being “low-key to the point of torpor”. Viewers also accused the corporation of using a lightweight production [...]
Posted in Active Kids, Festivals and Celebrations, Learning, Music, Dance and Drama, Teenagers, TV, Theatre and Film0 Comments
BBC News – Cellist wins BBC Young Musician prize
Posted on 16 May 2012.
Fifteen-year-old cellist Laura van der Heijden has won the BBC’s Young Musician prize for 2012. The teenager played Sir William Walton’s Cello Concerto with the Northern Sinfonia at the competition’s final at The Sage in Gateshead. Accepting the £2,000 prize, van der Heijden, from East Sussex, said she felt “amazing” and “so, so lucky”. She [...]
Posted in Active Kids, Festivals and Celebrations, Learning, Music, Dance and Drama, Teenagers, TV, Theatre and Film0 Comments
Britain’s Got Talent: Pudsey’s secret? Click and treat, not yell and beat | Beverley Cuddy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Posted on 16 May 2012.
Simon Cowell predicts Britain’s Got Talent winner Pudsey will become the most famous dog in the world. He’s probably right. I can just see Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence being cast as Ashleigh and Pudsey portraying himself – and maybe Colin Firth playing Simon since he’s putting up the money? There simply isn’t a Hollywood [...]
Posted in Family, Media and Celebrity, Music, Dance and Drama, Pets and Children, Teenagers, TV, Theatre and Film0 Comments
Saddle up for the Caravan of Hope – Telegraph
Posted on 16 May 2012.
It took Muscadeu, a small, portly white horse, and his rider, Luke Tucker, a teenager from Yorkshire, almost six months to trek from the Camargue region of France to England. For both the trip was a job of work: they were part of the 2008 Caravan of Hope, a charitable mission to deliver Camargue horses, [...]
Posted in Active Kids, Family, Garden and Outdoors, Parents, Sport and Fitness, Teenagers0 Comments
Young human rights reporter of the year 2012 – upper secondary school runner-up | guardian.co.uk
Posted on 16 May 2012.
During the second Indio-China War, 270,000,000 submunitions were dropped on Laos inside cluster bombs. Cluster bombs are bombs that instead of having one block of explosives at the tip contain dozens of small tennis ball-sized capsules that are made to detonate on impact. Of these submunitions dropped on Laos from cluster bombs, 80,000,000 failed to [...]
Posted in Learning, Literacy and Reading, Teenagers0 Comments
Young human rights reporter of the year 2012 – lower secondary school runner-up | guardian.co.uk
Posted on 16 May 2012.
The year was 1948. The world was still reeling from the atrocities committed in the second world war, which left many people missing their relatives, their homes and some, their lives. The world’s answer to this was a bit of paper, containing 30 articles that all humans should be entitled to. So on a rainy [...]
Posted in Learning, Literacy and Reading, Teenagers0 Comments
‘Leave us alone, we’re trying to revise’: Pupils call on school bosses to stop sending exam tips through Facebook and texts because they are distracting them from studies | Mail Online
Posted on 16 May 2012.
Pupils are being distracted from exam studying due to their college sending them ‘top revision tips’ by text, Twitter, and Facebook, it was claimed today. Students at Havering Sixth Form College in Hornchurch, Essex, say the ‘obvious’ messages are ‘annoying’ and are actually interrupting their A-level preparation. Daily tips aimed at revising pupils include ‘buckle [...]
Posted in At School, Exams, Internet and Technology, Learning, Teenagers0 Comments
Bradley Coker death: Heartbreak of parents whose son was killed in gap year plane crash | Mail Online
Posted on 15 May 2012.
Like most loving parents, Chris and Kathy Coker were anxious when their son Bradley embarked on his gap-year trip around the world. Even though they knew he was sensible, it was hard not to worry about what could go wrong. And so, the Cokers recall, they breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that [...]
Posted in Child Protection, Death and Bereavement, Family, Holiday and Travel, Teenagers, University and Gap year, World News0 Comments
Teenager stuns doctors after incredible recovery from operation on brain tumour that left her unable to stand or speak | Mail Online
Posted on 15 May 2012.
A teenager has taught herself how to speak, stand and eat again after she suffered a massive stroke during an operation to remove a brain tumour. Hannah Jones was 15 when doctors found a four-centimetre growth spreading behind her right eye. But after two operations to remove it, surgeons told her they would have to [...]
Posted in Family, Health, Teenagers0 Comments
BBC News – Derby family fire deaths: Brother talks of ‘struggle’
Posted on 15 May 2012.
The 14-year-old half-brother of six children who died in a Derby fire says the family is “struggling” to come to terms with their loss. Five children aged between five and 10 died in the early hours of Friday after the blaze at a property on Victory Road in the Allenton area. A sixth child, 13-year-old [...]
Posted in Child Protection, Death and Bereavement, Family, Kids, Parents, Teenagers0 Comments
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: ‘I didn’t want to be black. So I joined the skinheads…’ | The Observer
Posted on 15 May 2012.
The name Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is not one that slips easily off the tongue but it’s worth mastering because we’re likely to be hearing a lot more of it in the future. Followers of the wilfully perplexing American fantasy series Lost may recall its owner as Mr Eko, the former drug lord turned fake priest who [...]
Posted in Adopting and Fostering, Family, Media and Celebrity, Teenagers0 Comments
Gay Dad | The Observer
Posted on 15 May 2012.
Finally payday arrives and I have some cash. To celebrate, I ask the kids if they want to go and see the Avengers Assemble 3D movie that evening – the proviso is that Aidan finish his graphics project first (his tutor emailed me the day before saying she knew it was too much to expect him [...]
Posted in Family, Just for Dads, Teenagers0 Comments
What’s the recipe to make our teenagers fit for work? – Margareta Pagano – Business Comment – The Independent
Posted on 15 May 2012.
What is it about men in the kitchen that makes them so outspoken? The latest to let off steam is the top chef, Marcus Wareing, who criticises the trainee cooks working for him as lazy and clueless, only interested in how many hours they have to work and having an exaggerated sense of entitlement. Asked [...]
Posted in Finance, Learning, Teenagers0 Comments
New UK obesity centre offers surgery to teens – Health News – Health & Families – The Independent
Posted on 15 May 2012.
A London hospital has set up the United Kingdom’s first specialist centre offering extreme weight loss surgery for children and teenagers. Childhood obesity rates are rising fast in the UK, with latest statistics showing that a third of children aged 10-11 in England suffer from obesity or weight issues. In Southwark, the south London borough [...]
Posted in Family, Family Health, Food and Diet, Health, Obesity, Teenagers0 Comments
Lagging at school, the butt of cruel jokes: are males the new Second Sex? | The Observer
Posted on 15 May 2012.
You might not have realised it, but men are being oppressed. In many walks of life, they are routinely discriminated against in ways women are not. So unrecognised is this phenomenon that the mere mention of it will appear laughable to some. That, at least, is the premise of a book by a South African philosophy [...]
Posted in At School, Exams, Family, Finance, Graduates, Just for Dads, Kids, Learning, Parents, Teenagers, Toddlers, Tweens and Teens, University and Gap year0 Comments
Can good parenting classes ever work? – Telegraph
Posted on 15 May 2012.
Yesterday, I watched the film of Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk About Kevin with my teenage son. The story of how a mother’s dysfunctional relationship with her son results in a high-school mass murder shocked him into thinking, for the first time, how difficult parenting (as opposed to being parented) can be. “He’s [...]
Posted in Child behaviour, Family, Family matters, Parents, Teenagers0 Comments
Young actors would rather be in Homeland than take on ‘frustrating’ Shakespeare, says Imogen Stubbs – Telegraph
Posted on 15 May 2012.
Stubbs, 51, made her name as an actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company and had notable roles as Desdemona in Othello and Viola in Twelfth Night. But she admitted she could often find the texts impenetrable and it could be “frustrating” to get into character. Stubbs told the Radio Times: “Shakespeare can be terrifying, [...]
Posted in At School, Learning, Literacy and Reading, Music, Dance and Drama, Teenagers, University and Gap year0 Comments
Teenager died of tuberculosis after string of doctors fail to spot condition and one even branded her ‘lovesick’ | Mail Online
Posted on 15 May 2012.
A 15-year-old schoolgirl died of tuberculosis after a series of doctor errors missed the chance to detect and cure her disease, with her GP claiming she was ‘lovesick’, an inquest heard today. Alina Sarag died in January last year after a GP allegedly advised her that her physical deterioration was due to mental health problems. [...]
Posted in Child Protection, Death and Bereavement, Family, Family Health, Health, Parents, Teenagers0 Comments
Teenage internet geek suspected of leading group that hacked Tony Blair and MI5 | Mail Online
Posted on 14 May 2012.
A teenage boy is accused of heading a group of hackers who targeted Tony Blair, MI5 and the BNP. TeamPoison claimed responsibility for hacking Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist hotline and posted recordings on YouTube. The 17-year-old was arrested on Friday and police seized all of his computer equipment. He was released on bail over the weekend. [...]
Posted in Child behaviour, Internet and Technology, Internet Kids, Teenagers0 Comments
Children held at Heathrow in ‘disgraceful’ conditions – The Independent
Posted on 14 May 2012.
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) is detaining children in “degrading and disgraceful” conditions at Heathrow airport, an official report claims today. Children are held “almost every day and sometimes overnight” in premises that are “wholly unsuitable for the detention of children”, the Independent Monitoring Board for Heathrow said. The board said little had changed since [...]
Posted in Child Protection, Family, Health, Kids, Parents, Teenagers, Toddlers, Tweens and Teens0 Comments
Schoolboy becomes qualified pilot after building flight simulator in his bedroom | Mail Online
Posted on 14 May 2012.
He is not yet old enough to vote, but already Tom Hall can safely land an aeroplane at New York’s JFK Airport in a lightning storm. And when he feels like taking to the skies, Scotland’s youngest qualified pilot just pops into his parents’ spare bedroom and takes the controls of his own flight simulator. [...]
Posted in Hobbies, Teenagers0 Comments
Gethin Jones: my Saturday job | The Guardian
Posted on 14 May 2012.
I was always determined to earn my own cash, even when I was at school and growing up at home. My mother asked me in the school holidays to do some chores in the garden, which I did a lot of anyway, but this time she said she would give me £10 to do it. [...]
Posted in Active Kids, Family, Finance, Garden and Outdoors, Media and Celebrity, Teenagers0 Comments
Experience: I was a teenage gangster – The Guardian
Posted on 14 May 2012.
When I was young, I had everything I needed, but I wanted more. My head was turned by the glamour of music videos and I felt I wouldn’t be happy until I had £90 trainers. My mum and dad couldn’t afford them, so I started dealing – it was all around me on the estate in London where [...]
Posted in Child Protection, Family, Parents, Parents in prison, Teenagers0 Comments
Give 14-year-olds the vote, says Cardiff MP Alun Michael – The Independent
Posted on 14 May 2012.
MP Alun Michael believes children as young as 14 should get the vote. Mr Michael, Labour’s MP for Cardiff South and Penarth, has long been in favour of widening Britain’s enfranchisement, saying young people are under-represented. He argues that lowering the voting age by four years would increase voter turnout as well as encouraging youngsters [...]
Posted in History and Politics, Teenagers0 Comments
Schoolboy, 13, may never smile again after being shot in the face with airgun by random attacker hiding in bushes | Mail Online
Posted on 14 May 2012.
A schoolboy may never be able to smile again after he was shot in the face by a sniper with an airgun. Jordan Winstanley, 13, was blasted by a gunman hiding in bushes as he walked with friends. The teenager collapsed to the ground with blood pouring from a hole in his cheek. He was rushed to [...]
Posted in Child Protection, Disability, Health, Teenagers0 Comments
Lazy youth can’t stand the heat, says leading chef Marcus Wareing | Mail Online
Posted on 14 May 2012.
Top chef Marcus Wareing has criticised young cooks for chasing 15 minutes of fame on television shows like MasterChef. Wareing, whose restaurant at The Berkeley has two Michelin stars, said trainees needed to put in hours of graft because being on TV was not the key to success. The 41-year-old, speaking at the launch of [...]
Posted in Finance, Learning, Media and Celebrity, Teenagers, Time Out0 Comments
Students made to carry ‘Orwellian’ locater tags – Telegraph
Posted on 14 May 2012.
The devices can track wearers within 10 feet, but managers at West Cheshire College have denied they will be used for “Big Brother” surveillance. The vocational college, which has one campus in Ellesmere Port and another in Chester, serves about 2,500 full time students and 5,000 part-timers. Most are teenagers. Only staff and full-time [...]
Posted in At School, Learning, Teenagers0 Comments
GCSEs not tough enough say schoolchildren – Telegraph
Posted on 14 May 2012.
In a highly unusual move, teenagers from a leading independent school claimed that the flagship qualification – taken by more than 600,000 pupils each year – was too easy. It was claimed that syllabuses encouraged pupils to be “text book dependent” and failed to develop advanced skills. In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, some [...]
Posted in At School, Exams, Learning, Teenagers0 Comments
Michael Gove ‘backs more grammar schools’ – Education News – Education – The Independent
Posted on 14 May 2012.
Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, has pledged his support for the expansion of grammar schools, it was claimed yesterday. People who attended a reception at the Commons last month held by Friends of Grammar Schools said Mr Gove had expressed support for the example set in Kent, where a new “satellite” grammar school – an [...]
Posted in At School, Headteachers, History and Politics, Teachers, Teenagers0 Comments
Boy, 13, got his fatal drug cocktail from family, says coroner – Evening Standard
Posted on 14 May 2012.
A schoolboy found dead after taking a lethal cocktail of heroin, alcohol and an anti-depressant probably obtained the drugs from his family, an inquest was told. Drew Quinlan, 13, was found by his grandfather face down on a sofa at his family’s £4 million house in Richmond as he tried to wake him to go to [...]
Posted in Addictions, Death and Bereavement, Family, Family matters, Grandparents, Health, Teenagers0 Comments
Private schoolboy sexually assaulted on rugby tour ‘told to be a man’ after initiation ceremony – Telegraph
Posted on 14 May 2012.
The 16-year-old who has not been named for legal reasons, was camping with fellow 1st XV team-mates on the coast north of Cape Town when he was pulled out of his sleeping bag and set on by older boys for some kind of initiation ceremony. The incident, on March 17, was filmed on mobile phones [...]
Posted in Active Kids, Bullying, Child Protection, Family, Independent Schools, Learning, Parents, Rugby, Teenagers, World News0 Comments
Teenage organ donor saves eight lives – Telegraph
Posted on 11 May 2012.
Jemima Layzell, who went to Taunton School in Somerset, had told her parents she wanted her body to help save others in the event of her death. The teenager collapsed at home in Horton, Somerset, and died in hospital on March 14. Her heart has gone to a five–year–old boy, a 14–year–old was given [...]
Posted in Death and Bereavement, Family, Health, Parents, Teenagers0 Comments
BBC News – Teenage boy stabbed at Walthamstow station
Posted on 11 May 2012.
A 15-year-old boy has been stabbed in the stomach at a Tube station in east London. Police said a fight between a group of youths started at Walthamstow Central station at about 16:30 BST. A spokesperson for British Transport Police said it was too early to say whether the teenager’s condition was life-threatening. via BBC [...]
Posted in Child Protection, Family, Parents, Teenagers0 Comments
BBC News – Higher education ranking: UK ’10th best’
Posted on 11 May 2012.
The author of a report on international higher education has questioned whether UK universities can remain world leaders without more funding. The report for Universitas 21 rated the UK 10th best at providing higher education in a ranking of 48 countries. The study put the UK second for university research and teaching but 27th for [...]
Posted in At School, Learning, Teenagers, University and Gap year0 Comments
Teenage girls airbrushing school photos to look like models – Telegraph
Posted on 11 May 2012.
Many schoolgirls now say they feel “exposed” without make-up and spray tan while others feel under growing pressure to actively hide their intelligence, the study compiled for the Girl Guides found. And while many list characters from television programmes such as The Only Way is Essex among their role models, few were able to [...]
Posted in At School, Child Protection, Family, Family Health, Food and Diet, Health, Media and Celebrity, Parents, Teenagers0 Comments
Multiple-choice questions ‘could make comeback in A-levels” – Telegraph
Posted on 11 May 2012.
The exams watchdog said the system was an effective way to test large amounts of information alongside pupils’ English language skills. It was claimed that multiple-choice exams played a key part in assessments employed by other nations and greater consideration should be given to their use in England. But the regulator admitted that over-using these [...]
Posted in At School, Exams, Learning, Teenagers, University and Gap year0 Comments
Tearaway teenage Asbo twins banned from market town centre after three-year reign of terror | Mail Online
Posted on 11 May 2012.
A pair of teenage twin girls have been banned from a market town for repeatedly causing mayhem over a three-year period. The 18-year-old pair are not allowed to enter West Malling’s historic centre after being handed a two-year Asbo by magistrates. Sevenoaks Magistrates court heard that Chelsea Shannon Scott and her twin sister Leonie Vicky [...]
Posted in Child behaviour, Parents, Teenagers, Twins and multiples0 Comments
Terrified autistic teenager with the mental age of five left locked on school bus by driver | Mail Online
Posted on 11 May 2012.
An autistic teenager with the mental age of five-year-old was left locked in a school bus alone for 45 minutes after a driver failed to notice that she was there. Ellie Wales, 16, was returning home from school when she was left on board the vehicle at a bus depot in Dormanstown, East Cleveland. Her [...]
Posted in At School, Autism, Child Protection, Family, Parents, Special Needs, Teenagers0 Comments
Meet the mother who has spent $160,000 on her daughter’s acting career – and put nothing aside for her college fund | Mail Online
Posted on 11 May 2012.
It’s one thing to encourage your child to pursue their dreams, but sometimes encouragement comes at a price. A mother and daughter who live in Los Angeles told Anderson Cooper that moving to Hollywood so the young girl, Presley Cash, could become an actress has so far cost them over $160,000. Not only that but the [...]
Posted in Family, Growing up, Just Mums, Media and Celebrity, Parents, Teenagers, Time Out, TV, Theatre and Film, World News0 Comments
Pupils face classroom mobile phone ban – Telegraph
Posted on 11 May 2012.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, chief inspector of the education watchdog, said disruption during lesson times was often down to the use of mobiles and that the issue had to be stamped out. In an interview yesterday, the former headmaster revealed a tough new inspection regime would be introduced in schools from next term. Under the [...]
Posted in At School, Child behaviour, Exams, Headteachers, Learning, Parents, Teachers, Teenagers0 Comments
Ofsted chief gets tough over classroom discipline and schools could be penalised for failing to tackle disruption | Mail Online
Posted on 11 May 2012.
Pupils face a ban on mobile phones in school as part of a new Ofsted crackdown on classroom discipline. Schools will be penalised for failing to tackle persistent low-level disruption in lessons under a tough new inspection regime being introduced next term. This could force teachers to forbid mobile phone use by pupils – including [...]
Posted in At School, Child behaviour, Headteachers, Learning, Teachers, Teenagers0 Comments
Schoolboy’s 100m bronze medal comes as a Bolt from the blue – Evening Standard
Posted on 11 May 2012.
A London teenager today told of his joy as he traced the steps of Usain Bolt by winning a medal in the 100 metre final of the school Olympics at the Olympic stadium. Reuben Arthur, 15, from Islington won bronze in the blue riband event at the climax of UK School Games, staged in the [...]
Posted in Active Kids, Sport and Fitness, Teenagers0 Comments
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