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This blog community has been set up for you to share your thoughts and experiences with everyone else. You can enjoy reading tales from our bloggers or if you have something you'd like to share, why not have a go at blogging yourself? Just click the "Create a Blog Post" button once you've registered, and off you go. In order to keep everyone on the right track and to ensure we respect everyones voice, there are some rules to be mindful of.
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The latest video to go viral shows a young girl’s life being turned upside down because of war. Using the Second a Day format, taking a second of every day and creating a story, it starts on the girl’s eighth birthday and ends on her ninth. Created by Save The Children UK, it hopes to open people’s eyes to what is happening to the lives of children in Syria....
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Last updated: 06/03/2014
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With unrealistic portrayals from the media of what men and women should look like, a lot of girls feel pressured to look a certain way. However, a new doll created by Nickolay Lamm, was recently made, based on measurements of the average 19-year-old female in American. The Lammily doll, which was created to promote positive body image in girls, is slightly bigger than a regular Barbie doll and has...
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Last updated: 06/03/2014
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Former US President Bill Clinton has been reunited with the Ugandan boy he held in his arms 16 years ago. While visiting the country during his presidency in 1998, he met the baby boy who had been named after him due to the fact he was born in the same month that the US president visited Uganda. Master Bill Clinton Kaligani is now a teenager studying to become a doctor and was really excited to...
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Last updated: 05/03/2014
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Holidays with youngsters are pretty stressful without any added pressure. Unfortunately, when on a family ski holiday, a couple received a pretty nasty letter under their hotel door in relation to their baby daughter. The letter which was posted on Dad on the Run blog said that the parents should have left their baby at home. It went on to read: " Thank you for bringing a screaming baby to a ski...
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Last updated: 05/03/2014
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At the moment, testing for Down’s syndrome involves a number of ultrasound scans of the baby as well as a blood test for the expectant-mum. Experts then estimate the woman’s chances of having a baby with the condition. However, a new medical development could soon provide women with a better blood test for Down syndrome as well as rare genetic conditions like Edward's syndrome and Patau...
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Last updated: 05/03/2014
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Even with all the efforts many parents put into making sure their children are not exposed to smoke, a new study suggests that smoking around children should be cut out completely. In the study of 2,401 children from Finland and 1,375 children in Australia between three and 18, the researchers questioned children about their parents smoking habits and then measured the thickness of the...
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Last updated: 05/03/2014
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When Brooklyn Andrews was three years old, her father, Tony Andrews, gave her and her two siblings a teddy bear each before he left to serve in Iraq. Each bear was very special because whenever a button on it was pressed you could hear the father’s voice saying: “Courtney, Brooklyn and Jessy, I love you all.” Tony tragically died in 2006 while at work so the children only had the bears to...
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Last updated: 04/03/2014
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Myles Weissleder took his daughter Summer on her very first roller coaster ride; unfortunately, after going through a whole host of emotions, the little girl was left feeling a little disappointed.
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Last updated: 04/03/2014
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A 14-year-old girl has been killed by a train after she ran onto the tracks to save her mobile phone. Jenna Betti, a local soccer star in her Californian town, was hanging out on the train tracks with her boyfriend when they spotted a train coming . The two got off the tracks, but when Jenna realised she’d dropped her mobile phone, she ran back to received it. Tragically, the train’s operators...
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Last updated: 04/03/2014
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As a parent, we always want what’s best for our children and very often, we overspend on birthday gifts and Christmas presents because we want to give them everything. However, a new research shows that expensive gifts don’t help children develop creativity. Nor do they encourage physical activity in tots. A group 120 primary school kids in Melbourne were given cheap toys to play with. This...
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Last updated: 04/03/2014
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