Recently met these Nassau schoolgirls near this McDonalds.
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Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Sir Paul McCartney Is Marrying For The Third Time
Sir Paul McCartney has decided to tie the knot for the third time with his girlfriend, Nancy Shevell. The two had been dating for the last four years. His spokesperson has confirmed the news.
Sir Paul is 68 years old and Ms. Shevell is 51 years old. Both were married before for longer time span.
Paul McCartney was married to an American photographer - Linda Eastman for 29 years and had three kids with her. They were together till she died from breast cancer in 1998. He cherishes Linda to date and is happy that Nancy understands how significant a part she is of his life even after her death. He later married British model Heather Mills in 2002 which ended in a high profile divorce in 2008.
Nancy Shevell was married to a lawyer for more than 20 years. And later got into a relationship with Sir Paul.
Well, we hope they have a super cool marriage. They both sound mature from their details and look fairly happy in each other's presence. I don't think there is any age to fall in love or settle down with, if one has met somebody right. When both the parties feel mutually about one and another then things work out best at any age.
Couple Will Pay For A Baby They Will Never See - Surrogacy Issues
A British couple is very angry with the Child Support Agency and the law when they were forced to pay to a surrogate mother to raise a child they will never see.
The couple chose a single mother of two through a surrogacy website. The wife had six late stage miscarriages and were desperate to have a child. They agreed to pay the surrogate mother some 10,000 pounds but in the middle of her pregnancy she decided to keep the baby.
The judge backed her decision since she was the biological mother of the child even when she broke her promise. The couple knew the child would be emotionally distorted if she would be split into two homes so they agreed ultimately to allow the mother to keep the child and keep half of the money they had given her already for her service. However, the couple are angry that they have to pay some 600 pounds every month to raise the baby girl since the husband is the biological father anyway.
The couple are upset that though they have no right to see the child yet it is unfair to pay every month to raise this child. The baby was supposed to be the couple's yet she decided half way to keep the baby herself. They think that perhaps it is how this woman makes a living by fooling rich couples.
Well, this is quite sad for the couple. They wanted to have a baby but ended up bearing the responsibility of a child they will not even see. Unfair. Surrogacy agreements are not legally binding in British courts even with a formal contract so the risks of surrogacy can be huge in certain similar cases.
Parents Refuse To Read Fairy Tales To Their Children
Cinderella
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
Rapunzel
It has been revealed that most parents have stopped reading out fairy tales to their children. They think it is politically incorrect to read them out while some say they are frightening.
According to a poll carried out by TheBabyWebsite.com in 2009 with 3000 parents some strange things were discovered. Parents have decided to stop reading classic fairy tales because they were scary and politically incorrect. Read on further and you will know their reasons.
Parents explained that stories like Cinderella and Rapunzel would emotionally damage their kids. Rapunzel was considered too dark while Cinderella was treated like a slave. 1/3 of the parents refused to read Little Red Riding Hood to the kids because she walks through the woods all alone and finds her grandmother eaten by a wolf. While 1 out of 10 parents said that Snow White should be renamed because of the word "dwarf".
However, child development expert, Sally Blythe argues that by not reading out fairy tales parents are depriving the mental growth of their children because these stories teach them moral values. Kids learn the difference between right and wrong. These stories have helped kids previously in solving things through their own thinking and creativity rather than following some set instructions.
These stories prepare children for the realities of life not directly but through implications. They understand that strengths and weaknesses are a normal part of human nature. They understand the difference between good and evil, rich and poor, vanity and valour. Parents are hampering their growth by their decision to not read out classic fairy tales to their children.
Blythe went on to express in her book that fairy tales teach children that good should win over the bad. They learn the moral values from them and become strong enough to develop their lives by facing the realities.
She said the dwarfs in Snow White show that one must look beyond how one appears because what may not be so pleasant in appearance may be very kind from within in comparison to very beautiful people who might have ugly hearts. While in Goldylocks, the girl identified herself with the smallest and weakest of characters the most, which is perfectly normal. We must accept how we are. And Cinderella's story prepares children for life after your parent's death.
Well, I think Sally Blythe is pretty right when she says these stories do help children in better understanding of life. It builds a sensible side in them and not just make an instruction based robots out of kids. This is the reason why children are becoming so mean, selfish and materialistic perhaps in the younger generations. Maybe this is why kids today feel it is ok to do the wrong thing because it is so much easier and fun rather than being truthful and having some principles.
Parents really need to re-think their stance. I mean there must be a reason why these classics were taught and read to children for years and years. They worked fine on millions of kids before so what's so wrong with them now?
Help SOS In Providing Stable Ground To Japan And The Pacific Rim
The world is worried as we are witnessing such terrible catastrophe in Japan with earthquake, the tsunami, continuous quakes and jolts followed by the radiation disaster to the damages at a nuclear plant. Let us pray that this gets over soon and if you can help the children in anyway through SOS, please read more and donate whatever you can.
SOS Children's Villages is supporting children and families in peril in Japan and the Pacific Rim. SOS has responded quickly with the help of generous donations from people across the world and will continue to respond to disasters affecting children.
SOS Children's Villages has significant experience navigating disasters like the one unfolding in the Pacific Rim. In response to the tsunami that struck Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand in 2004, donors helped them build six new Villages made up of 2,232 family homes to support children whose lives were turned upside down with the force of swelling waves.
As the media focus on Japan, SOS is focusing on providing loving, stable homes to orphaned and abandoned children where there are no camera crews or news correspondents. From Indonesia to Haiti, from Pakistan to Japan, SOS Children’s Villages provides families, homes, and supportive environments to over 1 million people worldwide.
Education Emergency
Pakistan is suffering an education emergency, with at least 25 million children denied their constitutional right to an education.
Few of those children who do go to school receive the quality education they need to prosper in the modern world. The economic impact of the emergency is catastrophic – billions of rupees a year – while the human cost is much greater.
Let’s join together to force Pakistan’s leaders to finally get serious about providing every child with a decent school and a committed teacher. Sign our petition to make ending the education emergency the country’s no 1 priority.
3 Reasons for signing this petition
- Because the cost of not educating Pakistan is the equivalent of one flood per year.
- Because we have the money. 26 countries are poorer than Pakistan but are able to send more children to school.
- Because a country cannot thrive in the modern world without educating its children. It is a fundamental right under our constitution.
To Pakistan’s Prime Minister and Chief Ministers
We call on you to make education your number one priority in 2011 – the Year of Education – and to set out plans for giving every child their constitutional right to education. At a time of fiscal crisis, we ask you protect education budgets and to explain how, and when, they can be increased to at least 4% of GDP.
http://educationemergency.com.pk/
Education is the right of every kid. Please sign this petition. It won’t even take a minute. Thank you so much!
One child dies every minute in Pakistan
This is what I just read on Tribune. The report says that one child dies every minute from EPI (expanded program on immunisation diseases), diarrhea and acute respiratory infection (ARI). Moreover, 400,000 infants die in their first year, which indicates that we have a very depressing health situation in Pakistan.
One ought to give it serious attention, but I don’t think we have the resources. One among 10 children will die before reaching the age of 5 & one among 30 die immediately after they are born. This is incredibly depressing.
Pneumonia & air pollution are the 2 major factors affecting the health of children. Moreover, we don’t have proper child healthcare facilities as such in rural areas & naturally lack of such facilities makes it all the more worse. Maternal, newborn and child health care statistics in Pakistan are some of the poorest in South Asia.
Majority of children suffer from the respiratory ailments, cause they are most vulnerable thanks to their weakened malnutrition. You won’t be surprised to know that children are also suffering from hepatitis and their number is growing sharply. They also suffer from malarial diseases. Diarrhea is rampant, thanks to contaminated water in our country. It is estimated that about 20 per cent of diarrhea patients are children. Similarly, diseases like dysentery, scabies, dengue, goiter are also on the rise.
Infant mortality rate is pretty high in this country & this is quite a grim picture. Children are the future & so many don’t even survive.
Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani
This is a strange love story. A couple reunited after 70 long years. This is the real life story of Ethel Doby and Bill Thompson who first met in 1934 through mutual friends. They became quite close that year and spent lots of time together.
Ethel remembered that Bill was a bit slow and disappeared for some time suddenly after spending so much time together. When he came back after some time and asked her to marry him, Ethel was already going out with someone else. Then Ethel and Bill never talked again for 70 years.
They lost all contact and in a few years they both met their spouses. They had reasonably successful married lives with a few children. Today they both have grandchildren and a few great grand children as well. They spent these years working and spending time with their families.
Ethel's husband died in 1964 though and since then she never re-married again. It was in 2004, that Bill missed Ethel once again after his wife passed away. He started wondering if she was alive. He started searching for her and somebody knew where Ethel lived. So, Bill called Ethel up in 2006 and asked if he could meet her up for an hour.
They met and talked but not for an hour. Since then they have been together as great friends and companions. They are both 94 years old now but they love each other's company. They say they often talk like they are very young. They dated again after all these years. Ethel was very nervous because she had not dated anyone in the last 40 years after her husband's death.
Well, I totally think this is one strange love story (Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani) completely. I thought they got separated cause of some war but when I read the story it was purely their own decision. They met, they fell in love, the guy disappeared, the girl met someone else, when he came back to marry her she was not ready and then they lived happy lives. And then after 70 years they met again because there was something between them. The connection was always there. I guess it true that one does get back to his or her first love then. Anyhow, it also opens the door of hope for many who wish to re unite with their loved ones soon.
SRK - Dil Tou Pagal Hai on Madhuri
Shahrukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit met once again after all these years in the show "Jhalak Dikhla Jaa" that Madhuri is judging recently.
SRK and Madhuri have worked together in unforgettable films like Dil Tou Pagal Hai, Devdas, Anjaam, Koyla, Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam and perhaps some others.
Shahrukh said these words “I have no double thoughts when I say that the counting for the good and talented stops when I say ‘Ek do teen’. I would love to team up with Madhuri again or at least want her to make a guest appearance in my film in the years ahead.”
“The recent interaction with her was refreshing and indeed I had a gala time. We spoke about our children at length,” he said.
Just as all Madhuri fans, Shah Rukh too is sold out on her beauty. “I just love her completely, she is my darling. I am fond of her deadly smile and beauty.”
So, it seems SRK's dil is still quite pagal on lovely Madhuri.
Chinese Woman Forced To Have Abortion At Eight Months
This is so insane, I just read on twitter that a pregnant woman in China was forcibly taken from her home by a dozen people. She was kept in detention for three days by family planning officials. She was then taken to a hospital and forcibly given a drug that killed her baby. All this was done because the couple already had a daughter and China is very rigid on its one child policy.
People who refuse to abide by the law lose their jobs, property and money because China believes in controlling its population growth and this has been practiced for the last 30 years. As robotic as it sounds, it is obviously quite in human.
Recently people, very few have them started speaking their mind through the virtual media and social campaigners.
Like I say time and again, inhumanity is so common. We have entire nations and countries working to promote it. It is just an insane world.
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