article_snippet: But Tony Little claimed that children are able to ‘be children’ until way into children teens if children are kept apart from the other sex.
article_snippet: ‘What does strike me is that in a single-sex environment, particularly at the age of 13, 14, 15, there is an opportunity for both boys and girls to be both boys and girls for longer.
article_snippet: To be 'boyish' for longer, to be young girls.
article_snippet: One of the real challenges we face as parents and particularly in schools, and this has accelerated in the last few years, is the growing apparent sophistication of children at a younger age.
article_snippet: Eton said they oblige students 'to sit alone at they desks in preparation for a world in which, for much of the time, they will need to work collaboratively'.
article_snippet: I guess what I'm saying is in a single sex environment, you can allow innocence to last a little longer.
article_snippet: The head master said: ‘There are ways of talking about emotional development and about sexuality with single-gender groups, that oddly, and perhaps perversely, can get you further than in co-ed groups.
article_snippet: In a report, the cross-party group pointed out that children are at a growing risk of harm because of new pressures including sexting, online porn and cyberbullying.