“Being a role model is the most important kind of educating.” —John Wooden In June 2025, shortly after the NBA Finals, journalists interviewed Vaughn Alexander, the father of Oklahoma City Thunder ...

Children learn primarily through observing and imitating the behaviors of others, both positive and negative. Positive role models, individuals whose behavior, attitude and values are admired and ...

Delivering the keynote address at the Children’s Commissioner’s inaugural Festival of Children, taking place at the Young V&A in London this morning (3 April), education secretary Bridget Phillipson ...

The recent rise of male supremacist influencers, coupled with the unprecedented success of the Netflix series Adolescence, has provoked a plethora of public debate about what boys need in order to ...

Children begin learning about life early on from the people who surround them. From the earliest age, youngsters mimic their parents and look to caregivers to guide their development and demonstrate ...

Research shows 1 in 10 young people in the UK report low wellbeing, with teens ranking among the least satisfied globally. The release of Netflix’s Adolescence has only sharpened the nation’s focus on ...

Staff at a Telford nursery have been praised as "positive role models" to children in a glowing Ofsted report that highlights significant improvements. Busy Bees Day Nursery in Priorslee has been ...

I was 21 when I first started working with offenders. I was fresh out of university, full of energy and not quite ready to sit behind a desk. In my job, I found myself supporting some of the most ...

As South Africa grapples with an escalating crisis of gender-based violence (GBV), civil society organisations argue that the perception of boys who grow up without fathers as perpetrators of GBV is ...