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Join the campaign to make childhood last longer if possible in nature

Check out http://www.savechildhood.net/the-petition.html  to sign the petition. If you do you will be joining the likes of Sue Palmer author of Toxic Childhood.

• Protect the rights of the young child as a natural and joyful learner.
• Recognise the early years as a unique stage in its own right – and not as a  preparation for school.
• Protect young children from all developmentally inappropriate pressures.
• Implement rigorous investigation into the effects of screen technology on cognitive and emotional development and protect children from as yet unforseen consequences.
• Ensure that young children have direct and regular access to the natural world.
• Challenge all policies that compromise and over-regulate natural risk-taking and creative problem-solving.
• End all commercial marketing aimed specifically at children under seven years of age.