MICHAEL WALSH EDITOR: We are what we eat is a saying that stays good over time. My infant sons were under 18-months of age when they caught whooping cough. A serious disease whoever it affects but often lethal when infants are afflicted.
The silly season was once the name given to holiday August when incoming news baskets were empty. Then, there was a desperate urge to fill the pages and TV screens with anything to keep the proles distracted.
A generation that walked to school and came back alone
A generation that did their homework to go out and play in the street as soon as possible.
Many are broken-hearted by the inhumanity of politicians, the Press, avaricious corporates who like vultures tear at the last ligaments of their bankrupted victims. In a world ruled by a lack of compassion and empathy, is often overlooked the almost fairy tale goodness not of corporate godfathers but of ordinary people doing what is today the most extraordinary things.
I was in my twenties when the highly respected broadsheet (before tabloids) Daily Telegraph published a centrefold comparing ordinary not university education then (1960s) and 1900.
Let us imagine that this White mother, a native of her British homeland had been Black. Make no mistake about it, Black single mothers with more than 14 kids born of multiple fathers are commonplace in diversity Britain. Would the gutter press be venting their fury on the black mother’s profundity? British journalism, a media notorious for promoting mixed-race articles and advertisements don’t think that it is Right to be White.
Sadly, few boys these days have meaningful relationships with male mentors and father figures, men who can teach and inspire them. Some boys grow up without having been taught by a male teacher or are taught by teachers who have no life or work experience outside of a classroom.
When a mother took her teething toddler out for a meal, a waitress’ kindness gave them both a sense of peace. Jessica Ibarra’s 18-month-old son, Dominic, was teething, being fussy and having a generally tough day. The pain of when various teeth come in for a child can cause irritability, excessive crying and night waking, and Dominic was feeling the brunt of it.
Issy Carr ‘never forgave’ her parents for forcing her to give up her baby son and searched for many years before going to ancestry.com and discovery a mystery granddaughter.
A four-year-old girl who found a ‘perfect’ footprint of a dinosaur unknown to archaeologists has had a museum display named in her honour.
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