#children
Today is National Children’s day. Meeting Children in different countries might be one of my favorite parts of travel. You never have to speak the same language to play and have fun with children! So lucky to have so many little friends in China!
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when i was a child my favourite ‘toy’ was a rubber glove filled with water with a face drawn on
there were lots of dramatic ‘bleeding out’ scenes
A Very Short Fact: On this day in 1959, the United Nations adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, an expansion of the document first adopted by the League of Nations in 1924, in an attempt to protect and promote child rights all over the world.
“In addition to direct aid to children and their families, the United Nations has passed resolutions and initiated treaties establishing and attempting to enforce children’s rights. Going far beyond the 1924 and 1959 declarations, the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child offered a wide-ranging affirmation that the best interests of the child should guide all policies and decisions regarding childhood. The convention’s forty articles reflect all of the concerns, values, and issues that had swirled around the idea of childhood throughout the previous century, including health, education, freedom of speech and religion, and the right to a name and nationality. The UN’s Committee on the Rights of the Child oversees the enforcement of its provisions. Although the United States was involved in the drafting of the convention, it remained the only nation not to have ratified it as of 2017. Although the convention’s many qualifications made it sound like an agreement among lawyers recognizing the complications of trying to issue dictums applicable to dozens of political and legal systems, it had far more teeth than other efforts to provide protection for all the world’s children.
In addition to primary care programs related to nutrition and health, the UN has worked to eliminate child marriage, provide standards for children’s rights within families and the treatment of refugees, eliminate child prostitution and child pornography, and discourage the exploitation of children in armed conflicts. Despite these efforts, and the decided improvements they brought to millions of children’s lives, economic, military, and environmental conditions keep many children in distress. In 2000 an estimated 100 million school-age children were out of school, 50 million were working in harsh conditions, 30 million were involved in sex trades, 150 million were malnourished, and millions more had been orphaned by or suffered from AIDS.” — From ‘The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction’ by James Marten
[Pg. 105-6 — From ‘The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction’ by James Marten.]
Image via Wikimedia Commons.
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TV Review: Seven Swordsmen
TV Review: Seven Swordsmen
TV Review: Seven Swordsmen aka “Seven Swords Descend from Mount Heaven”
In 17th Century China, the Qing Dynasty now rules where once the Ming Dynasty did. Many Han resent their new Manchu overlords and pockets of rebellion are everywhere. To help quell the resistance, the Qing have banned the practice of martial arts by ordinary citizens. The Red Spear Society strongly objects to this…
#DREAMS
Dreams are illustrations… From the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman
#PURITY
“Rare is the union of beauty and purity.”
Juvenal
Made a little crochet bunny lovey for Baobao. You can read about the yarn and free pattern on my blognow!
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Hope you missed me! So here’s little something for your Christmas spirit.
Gryla is originally mentioned as being a giantess in the 13th century compilation of Norse mythology, Prose Edda, but no specific connection to Christmas is mentioned until the 17th century. She is enormous and her appearance is repulsive.
The oldest poems about Gryla describe her as a parasitic beggar who walks around asking parents to give her their disobedient children. Her plans can be thwarted by giving her food or by chasing her away. Originally, she lives in a small cottage, but in later poems she appears to have been forced out of town and into a faraway cave.
Current-day Gryla has the ability to detect children who are misbehaving year-round. During Christmas time, she comes from the mountains to search nearby towns for her meal. She leaves her cave, hunts children, and carries them home in her giant sack. She devours children as her favorite snack. Her favorite dish is a stew of naughty kids for which she has an insatiable appetite. According to legend, there is never a shortage of food for Gryla.
According to folklore, Gryla has been married three times. Her third husband Leppaludi is said to be living with her in their cave in the Dimmuborgir lava fields, with the big black Yule Cat and their sons. Leppaludi is lazy and mostly stays at home in their cave. Gryla supposedly has dozens of children with her previous husbands, but they are rarely mentioned nowadays.
A ‘mad genius’ grave-robber is to spend the rest of his life in a psychiatric hospital after digging up the corpses of 29 children and turning them into dolls.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/28/grave-robber-dug-up-29-girls-and-turned-them-into-human-dolls-4924735/#ixzz48jFc8pJ3
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1945, Gunner Hector Murdoch had been gone over four years, most of it as a prisoner of war in Singapore.
His wife Rosina and son John hadn’t known if he was dead or alive.
He got home on his birthday.
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spiral flower headband | Drama Queen Seams
How do you not laugh at her when she won’t stop sticking out her tongue. She is so silly. Anyway Made this really cut spiral flower added a few buttons and attached it to an elastic purple headband. Ta-Da! Instant accessory for your outfit.
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Inktober 2018: 23
MUDDY
So you want to adopt…read this first! Four Things an Adoptee Wants Adoptive Parents to Know
Adoption can be seen as a beautiful thing for everyone involved, but what is often overlooked is what is important to the adoptee. We often are told to be thankful for the opportunity to have a family, but our feelings for our birth family don’t just disappear in our new home.
If you have adopted a child or plan to adopt, please consider the following points…
- Tell the truth.We deserve to know…
