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Bumps and bruises are ‘good for children’

Children should be allowed to play dangerous games and risk minor injuries as part of a wider lesson in life, the organisation responsible for avoiding accidents has said.

By scraping knees, grazing elbows and getting bruises, children learn “valuable lifelong lessons” that will help them to avoid more serious injuries in later life.

Peter Cornall, head of leisure safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), said: “We need to ask ourselves whether it is better for a child to break a wrist falling out of a tree, or to get a repetitive strain wrist injury at a young age from using a computer or video games console.

“Parents and children must not be frightened about venturing outside. When children spend time in the great outdoors, getting muddy, getting wet, getting stung by nettles, they learn important lessons – what hurts, what is slippery, what you can trip over or fall from. We need to try to break down the perceived safety barriers to playing outside. A step towards achieving this can be the creation of wild areas for natural play within parks.

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Twinkie lovers, get ready to go bananas.The sweet treat known for its golden spongy cake and its creamy vanilla center is returning to its roots with banana-creme filling — the flavor that first made the snack a hit with sweet-toothed people more than 70 years ago.

Hostess, owned by Kansas City, Missouri-based Interstate Bakeries Corp., began selling the banana-creme snack cakes last week at retail stores nationwide. The filling tastes just as sweet as the standard vanilla but with a subtle hint and smell of banana.

Old-timers may remember the taste from the pre-World War II years. From 1930, when the Twinkie was first invented, to the 1940s, Twinkies were filled solely with banana creme. But a banana shortage during the war forced Hostess bakers to replace it with the vanilla flavor.

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AUSTIN – Texans describe themselves as religious – considerably more than people do nationally – but that doesn’t mean they say amen to prayers in schools or bans on embryonic stem cells, according to a poll released Tuesday.

The scientific poll by the nonpartisan Texas Lyceum measured religious beliefs and government policies and not surprisingly found strong support for some religion in public life.

“When we put this thing together, we had kind of the working hypothesis that Texas is a particularly religious state in a particularly religious society, so therefore we expected a pretty conservative, pretty traditional view across a range of issues,” said Daron Shaw, the pollster and a government professor at the University of Texas.

“In fact, there’s a lot more subtlety, a lot more nuance that we found,” Dr. Shaw said.

For instance, 82 percent of adult Texans said they supported public displays of the Ten Commandments; 68 percent supported government financed faith-based initiatives and 65 percent said they supported taxpayer money going to school vouchers.

Those numbers indicate stronger support than previous statewide surveys have shown.

Conversely, the researchers said that they were somewhat surprised that 52 percent of Texans favored the federal government funding embryonic stem cell research.

In addition, on the question of abortion rights, 19 percent said women should never have an abortion, compared with 37 percent who believe women should always have the right to seek an abortion.

“Texans want religion on the menu, but don’t want to be force-fed it,” said Jim Henson, director of UT’s Texas Politics Project, in interpreting the poll numbers.

The poll showed that 68 percent of Texans believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. That is almost twice as many as the Pew Research Center found in a 2006 nationwide poll that showed 35 percent held that belief.

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