Author Index - Peter Sidebotham

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help with learning to walk (triple helix - summer 2016)

Treating children with muscle tone issues can mirror God's compassion says Peter Sidebotham. As a paediatrician, I am often referred young children who are delayed in their development, including those who are slow in learning to walk. This may just be a mild developmental delay, the child taking time to acquire...

Growing up to be a child (triple helix - summer 2015)

Peter Sidebotham Westbow Press, 2014, £9.14, Pb 174pp, ISBN 9781490840673 Reviewed by Andrew Tomkins, Emeritus Professor of International Child Health at University College London. This is a 'must' for all parents! Whereas many Christian authors emphasise the need to engage in thoughtful reading and interpretation of Scripture, Jesus said that...

Keeping the Vision Alive The Story of Barnardo's (Book Review) (triple helix - winter 2006)

We grow great by dreams… Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. Woodrow Wilson, 28th...

Child Protection (triple helix - spring 2004)

In the field of child protection, the pendulum of public, and perhaps more importantly, media opinion seems to be swaying uncontrollably, and consequently quite dangerously, at the moment. A year ago, Lord Laming published his inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie.[1] Lord Laming highlighted the seriousness of the extreme...

Child Abuse (triple helix - autumn 2003)

We all, to some extent, carry responsibility for abuse, writes Peter Sidebotham If there were first century child protection registers, Jesus should have been on one. Two thousand years ago, a baby was born to an unmarried teenage mother, which in his culture carried far more stigma than it...

Growing up - in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men (triple helix - summer 2001)

'When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.'[1] As I grew, I put off some childish traits but built on others. Now as a paediatrician, I spend much of my time observing children going through the same process. Article six of...

Child Abuse (nucleus - autumn 1997)

Gemma sat on the trolley in casualty, her wary eyes taking in everything I did as I quietly talked to her father and examined her. She had been brought in because of some minor injuries. She was noted to have several other bruises which were not extensive and would all...