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Dear Editor,

Congratulations on the very first edition of the Children.UK WebMag. Coming at the beginning of a new millennium, it also seems to me to represent the start of a whole new era in child care. Now it is possible for carers to communicate feely and openly with each other across national and disciplinary boundaries, without being lectured to, advised or regulated! The quality of the first articles augurs well, and the lay-out is bright and clear. As one who has been involved in writing about child care for nearly 30 years in journals, magazines, books, and reports, this comes as the most welcome news in the child care field for many years. I recently noticed that there have been no replacements for the practitioners who used to write so deeply about children from daily experience in residential care (e.g. Dockar-Drysdale, Maxwell-Jones, Bettelheim, Balbernie, Wills etc.). One of the reasons may be the lack of suitable vehicles. If so your new means of communication could open the way for their successors!

I'll try to do my bit, of course, but I'll be hitting the site to listen to and learn from others. Could you prompt us with issues and questions, themes and ideas?

With best wishes on the whole project,

Yours sincerely,

Keith J.White.


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HAPPY BIRTHDAY "CHILDREN.UK"!

The German FICE-Section called "Internationale Gesellschaft für erzieherische Hilfen" sends its best greetings to the new Web Magazine of the FICE UK Section. It is a great idea of our colleagues to launch such a brillant medium for trans-national communication!

May it be a vivid and up-to-date platform for global information around the field of child and youth care!

Best regards from Frankfurt!
Yours,
Wolfgang Trede
Secretary General of IGFH

http://www.igfh.de
wolfgang.trede@igfh.de


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Dear Editor

I have just visited children.uk. Not only am I very impressed by what you are doing, but I have clicked on to the FICE Germany Section Home page. They have lots of useful information in very good English. For the first time I have the feeling that I belong to a living international organisation. Keep up the good work CfC. It is very exciting. What other stimulating developments can we look forward to in future ?

Kate Jervis



Dear Editor

Like your mag. Here are a few thoughts to cheer you up!

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
Clones are people two.
If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Think "honk" if you're telepathic.
If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
So what's the speed of dark?
How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dissing them anyhow?
After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting OUT of the water?
Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?
I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me are furious.
Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?
Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?

Regards
Stuart Gregory