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National Association for Small Schools - Campaigns against proposed small schools closures. Contains a newsletter, general information and contact details.
KidSource OnLine - The parent's source for children's healthcare, education, safety, learning disability, software, and parenting information and discussion
Parents Online - Department for Education and Skills initiative that aims to assist parents who wish to use the internet for educational purposes.
The OPPERA Trust - Research and training for those interested in early child development. Covers conception to year one. Includes details of services, relevant links and membership information.
Dennis Watts - Educational Consultant and Writer - Assists with school choice and offers educational consultancy, for parents who might be relocating or otherwise need advice on local schools.
Advisory Centre for Education - Independent national advice centre for parents. Topics include school exclusion, special educational needs, bullying and school admission appeals.
DfES Parents' Site - Government site giving information about education. Covers curriculum, admissions, bullying, homework, choosing a school (including a school website search), performance tables, and Ofsted reports.
See and Know - Christian teaching programme for babies and toddlers. Includes articles, lesson plans, resources and order form.
The Learning Tree - Ideas for activities and events to encourage lifelong learning by the whole family. Includes advice on creating a learning community, articles, puzzles and events.
The Parent Centre - UK Government information on children’s education. Covers curriculum, admissions, choosing a school, league tables, bullying and guide to free publications.
Read and Count - Offers information, ideas and activities to support children's early maths, reading and writing.
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Parents Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Parents "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Parents Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Parents Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Parents "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Parents "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous Parents Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Parents A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison Parents You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Parents "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Parents I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Parents There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Parents A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous Parents Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Parents "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Parents "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian Parents I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Parents The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Parents I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Parents I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke Parents Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi Parents
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