posts related to: Tessa Livingstone

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Boys will be boys… or will they?

Do you forbid your daughter from playing with Barbies and insists that your son learns to cook from the age of two? And are these efforts to impose equality on your children doing any good at all? Sam Pope looks at gender stereotypes and asks can we really avoid them. Is it nature or nurture?…

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A short history of palmistry

Palmistry is defined as the art, or practice, of telling a person’s fortune and interpreting their character from the lines and shapes on the palm of their hand. How can it be applied to children though? And what, if anything, does the practice teach us? Sam Pope and her daughter Holly tried it out. A…

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