Tag: terminal illness
My Husband Died Two Months After Our Twins Were Born –...
When I married Justin, life was perfect. We’d grown up knowing each other, friends in high school and at college. Eventually we got together...
We Care For Terminally Ill Children – Because They All Deserve...
Every baby, every child deserves to know love before they die. They deserve to be held, to know they are truly cared for, and...
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Even Adverts For ‘Healthy’ Fast Food Are Bad For Children And Should Be Banned
Television adverts for foods which are high in fat, salt or sugar are banned from children’s television schedules. Yet a McDonald’s “Happy Meal” advert...
‘Dad, Don’t Be Angry – I Have A Terrible Confession…’
Dear Dad, When there’s a 'borrowed' screwdriver in my nine-year-old son Alex’s hand, and the plastic back of yet another battery-operated toy lies discarded on...
Agreeing To Switch Off Mom’s Ventilator Broke My Heart, Even Though I Knew It...
As we approach the second anniversary of my mom’s passing, it’s again a time for reflection, remembrance, and preparing myself for what will always...
‘I Miss You Unbearably, My Son’
“We didn’t see it coming,” Paul says. “I think that was the worst part. In all the dark times, in the early days when we...
Girl Born With Her Heart Outside Her Body Goes Home After 14 Months
When Vanellope Hope Wilkins was born, nobody really expected her to live for long. The little girl had no breastbone – her heart...
Curious Kids: ‘Why Do Man Lions Have Manes And Lady Lions Don’t?’
I would like to know why man lions have manes and lady lions don’t?– Emelia, age 6, Fiji. Thank you, Emelia, for your very interesting...