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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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Two representatives from Catholic youth group Pure in Heart sellotaped students by the wrists to demonstrate why they should not have sex before marriage. The students were taped together in front of a class at a Dublin school before having it torn to show what would happen to them if they didn’t practice abstinence. In demonstrating the importance of remaining chaste, the same boy was taped to...
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Last updated: 19/02/2014
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Children love snow specially when it gets so bad out that it requires a day off school. Unfortunately, as this video shows, the unexpected day off can be a nightmare for most mums. Although resorting to alcohol may be a little extreme.
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Last updated: 18/02/2014
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Many people don’t realise that serious clinical depression is very different to having the occasional ‘blues.’ It is a condition that will affect one in six people at some stage in their lives and make it harder for them to cope with daily struggles. But, new research showed that depression is a condition that could be prevented in boys by looking at saliva samples. UK researchers found that...
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Last updated: 18/02/2014
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There’s a common misconception that as women grow older, they begin to lose interest in having sex. However, this is a myth often believed by those who don’t rate sex as being important to begin with. A new study showed that when it comes to love making, age is no barrier. Those who have a healthy sex life in middle age, continue to have a healthy sex life as they grow old. American researcher...
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Last updated: 18/02/2014
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A Mississippi mother who was expecting to give birth to three little girls had the shock of her life when she ended up giving birth to one extra baby. As incredible as it is, the fourth and unexpected child had managed to hide during all the ultra sounds the 42-year-old woman underwent while pregnant. The four girls arrived 13 weeks earlier than expected and despite being premature, the girls...
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Last updated: 17/02/2014
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Since folic acid is a vitamin that occurs naturally in green vegetables but cannot be stored in the body, expectant mums and those trying to conceive have had no choice but to take it as a supplement. However, health experts think that making this vitamin a mandatory additive to food will ensure pregnant women are getting the right nutrients to prevent their little one from being born with spinal...
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Last updated: 17/02/2014
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