By Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter Boredom is often associated with solitude and Syal spent hours of her early life staring out of the window across fields and woods, watching the changing weather and seasons. But importantly boredom made her write. She kept a diary from

Young children trust the world completely and absorb each and every impression with great openness. The responsibility of adults is to understand children's developmental needs - physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - and establish a healthy foundation for the rest of life. Pare