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Research claiming childhood food choices could cause health problems in later life featured last week. The Scotsman reported that children who eat more than three portions of fish a week doubled their risk of a stroke, while The Times claimed pre-school children who eat too many chips could increase their risk of breast cancer. Babies can detect complex rhythmic patterns in Balkan folk dance tunes at just six months, said The Guardian, but their innate musical ability is lost by 12 months after exposure to sounds such as Britney Spears and the Crazy Frog.

Babies can detect complex rhythmic patterns in Balkan folk dance tunes at just six months, said The Guardian, but their innate musical ability is lost by 12 months after exposure to sounds such as Britney Spears and the Crazy Frog.

According to The Independent, 60 per cent of mothers spend two hours a day entertaining their children - more than in the 1950s, when they invited other children over and left them to themselves - but this is more likely to involve watching TV than playing board games.

Supernanny Jo Frost was hired by V music festival organisers to look after the offspring of celebrity guests. The Sun said she brought along her trusty naughty step to discipline the children of Oasis siblings Liam and Noel Gallagher.

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