Showing posts with label Children's Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Children's Society. Show all posts

Survey: can you identify the Moon?

I don't mean to keep kicking free paper Metro, but I am baffled by the results of a survey it reports on today. The findings include:

  • "Nearly three-quarters [of children surveyed] can't identify the Moon in the night sky"
  • "57% cannot identify Mars"
  • "44% cannot identify Saturn"

Hmm. Fewer children can identify the Moon in the sky than they can Mars and Saturn. A little odd, don't you think?

Then again, the survey was "to mark the launch of the new Power Rangers DVD" so I don't put a great deal of faith in it.

In case you don't know: the Moon


Metro's online version of the story: it doesn't include all the strange findings above but there is an amusing correction...

Childhood memories: Sophie Ellis-Bextor naked

Sophie Ellis-Bextor naked in a tonne of 'hundreds and thousands' sprinklesUK charity The Children's Society has launched a campaign to gather "hundreds and thousands of childhood memories that will contribute the Good Childhood Inquiry, the UK’s first independent inquiry into what makes a good childhood. This will help us understand how to make childhood better today."

Fair enough, but to promote the campaign the charity has photographed elfin pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor naked in a tonne of multi-coloured 'hundreds and thousands' sprinkles (pictured).

Does this strike anyone else as slightly inappropriate? I assume the charity would want to associate childhood with wholesomeness and innocence – not virtues that the promotional photos really convey to me.

I'm not complaining too strongly, mind.