What Happens When American Children Learn About Racism?

What Happens When American Children Learn About Racism?

Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Americans have spent over 150 years arguing about what kind of history we should teach our children. In the “Textbook Nation‘, a book examining the history of conflicts over American curriculum, historian Joseph Moreau noted that multitudes of Americans have worried about the heavens falling when the ‘wrong’ … Read more

Expert advice to help children avoid and get over car sickness

Expert advice to help children avoid and get over car sickness

With the summer holidays fast approaching, this could mean long trips to the sea or the airport for a short break abroad. The car leasing experts from LeaseCar.uk and its sister site LeasingElektroauto.de have put together some useful tips to help children in the car who may be prone to car sickness. The churning, sickly … Read more

Woman dies and two children saved after car goes into river

Woman dies and two children saved after car goes into river

A woman in her 40s has died after a car drove into the River Lee last night in Cork, Ireland. Two children were rescued from the water and taken to Cork University Hospital for treatment of their non-life threatening injuries. The incident happened around 8:45 p.m. Friday at Kennedy Quay. The woman’s body was later … Read more

Hepatitis outbreak in children: All you need to know about the likely cause

Hepatitis outbreak in children: All you need to know about the likely cause

Severe inflammation of the liver (hepatitis) has recently been reported in previously healthy children. From April 21 there was 169 confirmed cases of “acute hepatitis of unknown origin” in children in 12 countries, with the vast majority of cases (114) occurring in the UK. Many of the children are under ten years old. What has … Read more

How to claim Healthy Start vouchers? Mum's with young children eligible for help

How to claim Healthy Start vouchers? Mum's with young children eligible for help

If you are more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under four years old, you could be entitled to claim help under the Healthy Start scheme. The scheme’s card can be used to buy healthy foods and milk for your youngsters. According to official Government guidanceif parents are eligible, they will be sent … Read more

'I'm a single mum at 29 with 15 children and people didn't think I could do it'

Dora Moono Nyambe moved to the village of Mapapa after a shocking visit

Teacher Dora Moono Nyambe, 29, adopted 12 children and fostered three others after deciding to move to the village of Mapapa in Zambia to help alleviate poverty and open a free school Dora Moono Nyambe moved to the village of Mapapa after a shocking visit ( Image: tiktok/@doramoononyambe) A 29-year-old woman has spoken of her … Read more

JCVI advises vaccination for children aged 5 to 11 to protect against severe Covid

JCVI advises vaccination for children aged 5 to 11 to protect against severe Covid

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) said it has updated its advice regarding Covid-19 vaccinations for children aged between five to 11 to help prevent “severe” Covid-19 illness. However, the JCVI also says that “Children aged 5 to 11 years who are not in a COVID-19 clinical risk group are at extremely low … Read more

England to offer Covid vaccine to children aged five to 11

England to offer Covid vaccine to children aged five to 11

Children aged from five years old are set to be a Covid vaccine in England, it has been announced. Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said the offer was “non-urgent” but added that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) had advised that a coronavirus vaccine should be offered to those aged from … Read more

Who are the Queen's children? Line of succession of the Queen's four children

Who are the Queen's children? Line of succession of the Queen's four children

Queen Elizabeth the second, the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms, makes up the head of the Royal Family. The Queen, now 95 years of age, was born in Mayfair, London on 21 April 1926 as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York. After King Edward VIII abdicated the … Read more