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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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Now that youngsters have easy access to a number of social media sites, they are more exposed to cyberbullying than ever before. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that cyberbullying in post-primary schools has gone up by a third. A new report from the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD), showed that cyberbullying in secondary schools has gone up by a third in the last...
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Last updated: 24/02/2014
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This video is perfect if you want to catch up on your movies before the Oscars on 2 nd March. The tiny members of the cast re-enact a host of Oscar nominated flicks that will leave you in stitches.
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Last updated: 21/02/2014
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While most parents think they are the ones in control of the upbringing of their kids, a new study showed that the ball isn’t in their court all the time. The study suggests that parenting is not about the characteristics of a mum or dad alone, but rather, something that results from a child’s attributes as well as their parent’s. When researchers looked at over 14,000 twins, they found that...
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Last updated: 21/02/2014
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While there has been an ongoing debate on whether or not homosexual couples should be allowed to marry, the results of a recent Red C poll showed that the majority of Irish people think same-sex marriage should be allowed in Ireland. In a recent survey, the results showed that over three quarters of Irish voters support same-sex marriage. Chairperson of the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN...
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Last updated: 21/02/2014
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As part of a campaign to provide warm clothing to children in Syria, the Norwegian branch of the SOS Children’s Villages International charity created this extremely heart warming video. Not only does it highlight the charity’s cause but it also shows the lengths people will go to to help others around them. The kindness of strangers is well and truly alive. (To translate the video choose...
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Last updated: 20/02/2014
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When this little girl listens to her parent’s wedding song Feel like Home by Chantal Kreviazuk, she is reduced to tears. It is very sweet.
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Last updated: 20/02/2014
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There is a growing concern on how youngsters can easily create multiple accounts on social media that will allow them to speak to strangers. Since parents are preoccupied with the sexual dangers associated with it, they never ask a very important question: why? According to danah boyd, author of I t’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens , parents should be concerned with why their...
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Last updated: 20/02/2014
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With a lot of schools forcing children to follow strict uniform regulations, there’s very little room for them to express themselves through hair and clothing. This is why children’s advocacy group Voices of Youth organised an event to inform youngsters of how they are being denied of freedom of expression and what they can do about it. The ‘What Rules Rule You’ event saw over 60 secondary...
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Last updated: 20/02/2014
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Many pregnant women find that they lose every shred of sexiness as soon as they become pregnant. That is because they are under the impression that their partner no longer finds them attractive due to added pregnancy weight, morning sickness and mood swings that women experience during pregnancy. We all know how pregnancy changes the body in unpleasant ways. But, when a Reddict user asked men to...
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Last updated: 19/02/2014
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American photographer Jessica Storm first started taking pictures of babies in a NICU when she was a volunteer with Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, a nonprofit organisation that takes pictures of babies in hospital. Jessica said that mums often miss out on taking pictures of their tiny infants when they are first born as they are too concerned about their health, which is where she comes in. Talking...
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Last updated: 19/02/2014
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