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Orlando Bloom shares rare insight into ‘family time’ with rarely-seen children Daisy Dove and Flynn

Orlando Bloom shares rare insight into ‘family time’ with rarely-seen children Daisy Dove and Flynn

Orlando Bloom is a doting dad to daughter Daisy Dove and son Flynn – but he prefers to keep his children out of the spotlight.  However, while promoting his appearance in the upcoming Peppa Pig wedding special, he couldn’t help but gush about his children as he made a rare comment about his family.  The Pirates of the Caribbean star, 47, shares his three-year-old daughter with his fiancée Katy Perry and his 13-year-old son with his ex-wife Miranda Kerr.  You may also likeWATCH: Katy Perry shares rare glimpse into daughter Daisy Dove’s life When asked what family time means to him in an interview with People, he said: “Family time is, for me, a meal together. Sitting down at a table.”  He added: “It is going out on a walk or going on an adventure. It’s games, it’s play. It’s connection. It’s holding hands and hugging. And telling people you love them a lot.”  Orlando and Katy share daughter Daisy Dove Orlando and Katy prefer to keep Daisy Dove out of the spotlight, but she did make …

Zara and Mike Tindall’s bond with Phillips children: Sweetest snaps of Uncle Mike with Savannah, 13, and Isla, 11

Zara and Mike Tindall’s bond with Phillips children: Sweetest snaps of Uncle Mike with Savannah, 13, and Isla, 11

Zara and Mike Tindall are every inch the doting parents, to their three children, Mia, 10, Lena, five and Lucas, who happens to have a birthday this week. Talking about how Zara as a mother, the former England rugby player revealed exactly what he thought of his adoring wife’s instincts when chatting to HELLO! at the Legends of Rugby Dinner last year. “Her passion her compassion, her dedication, I think they are the foundations of any great mother, it’s just born in,” the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! star said. “She punishes herself for going to work because she doesn’t want to leave them, I take my hat off to all women out there.” © ShutterstockZara and Mike Tindall are proud parents and an aunt and uncle Their incredible parental instincts are also part of what makes the happy couple the most caring aunt and uncle to their nieces, 13-year-old Savannah and 11-year-old, Isla Phillips, who are the daughters of Peter Phillips and his ex-wife, Autumn. Zara and Mike’s sweetest aunt and uncle moments… Family festivities …

Man killed, woman and four children injured, in crash on 10 Freeway

Man killed, woman and four children injured, in crash on 10 Freeway

One man was killed and a woman and four children injured Sunday afternoon in a rollover crash on the 10 Freeway, fire officials said. Authorities said the two-car crash occurred near the Hoover Street ramp on the westbound 10 in the University Park area. One man was found dead at the scene, and a 29-year-old woman and four boys were taken to a trauma center for treatment, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. One boy is 3 months old; the others are 6, 7 and 10 years. Officials said they were in serious or critical condition. The crash, which occurred around 3 p.m., closed all westbound lanes on the 10 for several hours. The California Highway Patrol reopened the freeway around 6:30 p.m. City News Service contributed to this report. Source link

What happens when you put a nursery in a care home? – podcast | News

What happens when you put a nursery in a care home? – podcast | News

“I think there’s something very natural about bringing young children and older people together, and yet in the UK it’s not the norm any more,” Helen Pidd, the Guardian’s north of England editor, tells Nosheen Iqbal. Is the UK missing out on the benefits of intergenerational living? Helen visits Belong Chester, a multigenerational care home in Chester’s city centre. Sue Egersdorff, co-founder of the charity Ready Generations, who operate Belong’s nursery, tells Helen that many residents are reserved when they arrive but blossom when they make friends with the nursery children. “The children come in and you actually see them, their whole body, unfurl,” Egersdorff says. Helen meets residents with dementia and those who care for them, and finds out about the benefits of the environment for the older residents and for the nursery children. “I think what the children really gain is they have access to a whole ready community of incredibly patient and available older people, who do things at a slower pace, which is perfect for children who often do need a …

If Your Kid Doesn’t Have These 5 Skills, You May Be Raising A Nightmare | Dr. Gina Hassan

If Your Kid Doesn’t Have These 5 Skills, You May Be Raising A Nightmare | Dr. Gina Hassan

You’ve heard it a million times — parents of older children dishing out the warning to parents of young kids, “Just wait until they’re teens!!” New parents look ahead with foreboding at what’s to come. Being warned that you “don’t want to go there” when there is nowhere else to go but there is a hard pill to swallow. The trajectory of human development does not, after all, offer an ‘opt-out’ or ‘hold here’ option at any given stage. We can’t say, “I’ll take infancy and adulthood, but skip the pesky toddler years and adolescence.”   So, what then is a parent to do? Our adorable kids will turn into teenagers at some point. Are teens-as-nightmares an inevitability? Or are horrific teens simply a by-product of the parenting they receive (meaning how we raise our young children now shapes the teens they’ll become)? Teenagers, of course, have a reputation for being: unpredictable, impossible, irresponsible, moody, disrespectful, dramatic, entitled, and just plain difficult to be around.  Is this something that as parents we must grin and bear? Or, as experts like Julie Lythcott-Haims suggest: Is it possible that the contemporary culture of parenting (where irresponsible and disrespectful behavior, as …

Children in Ethiopia ‘too sick to feel hunger’ – Mary’s Meals launches appeal | World | News

Children in Ethiopia ‘too sick to feel hunger’ – Mary’s Meals launches appeal | World | News

I have just returned from Tigray in northern Ethiopia, which – despite its unique history, culture and breath-taking scenery – will, sadly, forever be associated with hunger. The infamous famine here in the 1980s was the catalyst for Live Aid and that enormous global fundraising effort that many of my generation will never forget. I last visited in 2017 and even then, we saw the pressing need for our daily meals in places of education and agreed plans to greatly expand our work as soon as possible. At that point, none of us could have envisaged the devastation that was about to unfold. The Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the economic downturn led to a huge surge in hunger all over the developing world, but in Tigray these have been compounded by two additional catastrophic events.  The two-year a civil war – which claimed the lives of around 600,000 people and left the country in ruins – has been closely followed by a terrible drought, leaving dry fields unplanted. Tigray officials say 4.5 …

Mom Says Adoption Is Not A Solution To Infertility

Mom Says Adoption Is Not A Solution To Infertility

A mom named Paige Turner admitted that the conversation surrounding both adoption and IVF (in vitro fertilization) needs to change because they are not the same and shouldn’t be used interchangeably. In a TikTok video, Turner responded to a comment from a follower who claimed that both IVF and adoption are solutions for people who want to be parents, which Turner heavily disagreed with and revealed exactly why she does. Turner explained why parents should stop using adoption as a solution to their infertility. Turner acknowledged that when it comes to the topic of adoption, a majority of people are severely uneducated about what that means. Many people are affected when it comes to an adoption: the parents adopting, the child, and the birth parents, if they’re involved in the process. This means that the rhetoric surrounding adoption needs to change, especially concerning parents going through IVF treatments. “The implications of adoption on a child are vast and far-reaching, and will color their entire lives,” Turner insisted. “Adopting a child is not just something you do, …

Mark Wahlberg gives rare update on family life with four children

Mark Wahlberg gives rare update on family life with four children

Mark Wahlberg has no regrets over his family’s big move to Las Vegas. Speaking to PEOPLE Magazine, the actor revealed that his wife, Rhea Durham, and four children – Ella, 20, Michael, 17, Brendan, 15 and Grace, 14 – are now happily settled in Nevada.  © GettyIn 2022, Mark and his wife Rhea decided to leave their former home in California “It’s a place where my kids can thrive and do their thing and pursue their interests,” he told the publication. Prior to the move, the family had resided in California, but after noting that he’d “only made a couple of movies” in the region, Mark became determined to relocate to Las Vegas.  “After this gubernatorial election, hopefully we go to legislation and get a bill passed so we can get tax credits for the state, build a state-of-the-art studio here and make this Hollywood 2.0,” he revealed on The Talk in October 2022.  “To be able to give my kids a better life and follow and pursue their dreams — whether it be my …

5 Things All Truly Great Parents Do Every Single Day | Melanie McGrath

5 Things All Truly Great Parents Do Every Single Day | Melanie McGrath

Last year, my teenage daughter spontaneously said, “Mom, I shouldn’t be telling you this because I’m usually hating you, but, someday I want to be just like you. You’re interesting. You’re funny and fun. You respect me and my boundaries.” Cue the mom smile. Somewhere in her description and this momentary peace between us, I was convinced there was a road map to being the best parent ever. How do we, as parents, find our way to that road? As a family therapist, psychoanalyst, mom, and grandmom, it’s my experience that five signposts give us clues that we’re on the right track in parenthood. Here are 5 things all truly great parents do every single day: 1. They have fun and play Children’s work is play. For a baby, crawling is a severe business. (Not to mention, crawling activates the corpus callosum — the myelin-bound mid-section of the brain that divides the right and left hemispheres — which in turn, begins the communication between the two hemispheres.) It’s a combination of play, movement, and work. Within every parent lies a reservoir of play that is a hallmark of truly great parenting. The winter of 2003 was frigid …