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Why is Community Involvement Important for Children?

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Getting involved with the community provides many benefits for young people. It teaches them a range of new skills, provides them with a sense of belonging and allows them to develop the ability to empathise as they learn of other people’s struggles. With that said, it’s wise for parents to encourage their children to support […]

5 Wednesday

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Things there are no words for   The exact exasperation of a fly buzz-by again. Jump-scare daylight after a matinee. The beat-beat calm before bad news bites. And when you see your son as a reasonable human being… and quite like him. Someone put sugar in the tea and didn’t tell you, or salt. Wondering […]

4 Tuesday

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Why me?   How can it be that I am me? After all, I could just as easily have been a flea, or a pea. How did I get here – to 3.52, right now in this place? And of everyone who’s ever been so far – the eleventy kertrillion former people, representatives of the […]

3 Monday

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Squeeze   All of a sudden there’s a squeeze around the heart. Sharp. A wincing intake.   In a photo, it’s not the summery smiles with ice cream ghosts that nettles, but the unspooling since.   I feel it in a sugar crunch, sharp with lemon, in the opening of a Top 40 climber. In […]

2 Sunday

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Downpour   What I love about rain is its sheer bloody toldyousoness its smell, of course the plash, pitter and plop its ’bow a smug waterproof coat strangers talking kaboom, flash thunder storm dry firesides wellington boots with fleecy linings its stopped play lushy swishy grass clouds smearing the overthere hills a single bulging orb […]