Category Archives: Children’s Rights
Peterborough SANDS |
Peterborough SANDS is a regional division of the National Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Charity (SANDS). Tragically and without an obvious reason 17 babies every single day in the UK are born as stillbirths or die soon after (11 due to … Continue reading
‘Feral Rats’: London Riots and the Vilification of Youth |
Currently the United Kingdom is in a vice like grip of horror, disgust and panic over the riots that engulfed parts of London and other major cities nation wide. No-one who has watched the news coverage of the events can … Continue reading
Children’s Day. |
I would like to introduce you to our fantastically impassioned guest poster today; Neil Thornely who is working tirelessly in a effort for the United Kingdom to recognise a National Children’s Day. As some of you may know, today is … Continue reading
Bullying: A Sad Fact! |
Bullying refers to the deliberate and systematic verbal, physical and/or emotional harm inflicted from one individual to another where the recipient feels unable to defend themselves. Regrettably, bullying is an all too sad fact in the lives of our children … Continue reading
This week is World Breastfeeding Week a global initiative organised by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action to protect, support and promote breastfeeding. This year the theme focuses on communication and how Breastfeeding needs to be understood as a 3D Experience; … Continue reading
Today on the blog I have a guest post by very lovely veteran blogger Bethan Townsend. Bethan is a talented writer, consummate twitterer and is the proud owner of a brand new blog aptly entitled The Pieces of Me. Imagine … Continue reading
In light of the tragedies that occurred in Norway and the death of Amy Winehouse this weekend; it seems appropriate to look at the issues surrounding childhood mental health. It is rather disturbing to think of children living with mental health … Continue reading
I would like to share with you today a very moving guest post written by a true mummy warrior Christina Bennett who is a campaigner for the premature baby charity Bliss and blogs as Mummy Beadzoid. I was 6 … Continue reading
It is a depressing indictment on our society that media mogul Murdoch is monopolising the news at a time when children are wasting-away and dying. The UN sadly declared yesterday that Lower Shabelle and areas of Bakool in southern Somalia are now … Continue reading
The drought in East Africa |
This post was previously published on The Life and Times of a Domestic Anarchist on the 6th July 2011. Within our country at the moment we are all feeling the effects of the austerity measures that are the consequence of the … Continue reading
