Parent-run nursery bans TV, plastic toys and logos

THE days of Ken and Barbie dolls will be well over if one kindergarten gets its way.

A new era of nurseries has been born, in which they are refusing to allow toddlers to watch television, play with fancy commercial toys or wear clothes with brand names.

The Soupstone kindergarten encourages youngsters to play with shells and conkers, disallows logos on children’s clothing and promotes storytelling rather than the reading of books.