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We’re pregnant!
With healthcare aimed at mother and baby during pregnancy, it is understandable that the father’s experience may be neglected during this critical time in family development. But the Malta Midwives Assocation is insisting on the importance of...
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Free life insurance for new parents
MSV Life, Malta’s leading life insurance company, is offering a product that provides free life insurance for new parents. This initiative aims to help parents take the first step in protecting their child’s financial security. Through this plan,...
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A helping hand
Whether to aid parents of children with disabilities, to lend a hand with learning, or simply to offer a kind word of advice, Home-Start Malta has offered all forms of support to Maltese families. Jo Caruana meets a very special one to find out...
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Positive discipline
Joanne Cocks comes to grips with the Adlerian approach to parenting. Specialist in Adlerian psychology and educator Joyce Callus tells her being a parent means helping children to discover and develop their potential to help them survive and thrive...
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Starting right
A baby’s feet grow rapidly during the first year, reaching almost half their adult size. This is why specialists consider the first year to be the most important in the development of feet. Leading orthotics and biomechanics clinician Dr Charlotte...
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A happy career in childcare
A career in childcare is rewarding, interesting and gives satisfaction. It creates opportunities, empowers child carers and provides flexibility. Future Focus offers courses from CACHE, a leading UK body for this type of qualification. To ensure...
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Family realities, classroom challenges
During these past years, and particularly now with the introduction of divorce legislation, family realities are continuously evolving and this has also affected daily life in the classrooms. Ramona Depares speaks to two educators to find out how...
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Sisters and mothers
Simonne Pace visits the Ursuline creche in Sliema to meet the nuns who have to act as mothers. They do their best for the children, but they know the maternal figure is still missing. The doors of the Ursuline creche in Karm Galea Street, Sliema,...
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Two mums, two dads, three sisters
They fell into fostering because they wanted to give something back to a child... and in return, they are one big happy family. Claudia Calleja experiences the joys – and worries – of accepting an appreciative little boy into their home, but knowing...
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The safe passage of kids
Joanne Cocks test drives pushchairs and finds that buying a stroller is no walk in the park and almost as complex as purchasing a car. Parents have different lifestyles after they have their baby. Some go back to their career soon after the child is...
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Growing with the baby
Mothercare’s Orb is a complete pram and pushchair system that grows with the baby. The one-hand rotation of the Orb pushchair allows you to quickly change the direction your little one faces when on the go. Parent-facing mode can help support the...
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Mummy’s friend’s fiend
So what do you do if you can’t stand your best friend’s fiendish child? And your own kid is in the firing line? Helen Raine speaks to a mother in this situation and gets first-hand and professional tips on how to handle it without damaging the...
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Call me!
Support is only a phone call away. Joanne Cocks dials 179 to understand the service Aġenzija Appoġġ offers children and to make sure they do not abuse of it themselves. A total of 247 parent-child relationship calls were among 5,177 received by...
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Smart child care
BeeSmart Childcare Centre is a responsible and loving carer for children from zero to school age, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The centre’s objective is to provide a loving, safe and educational environment, while catering for individual...
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Grandma and me
Helen Raine discovers the magic of a Hawaiian programme aimed at creating a few hours of space in a busy week to reconnect with the kids and give them the skills they need to succeed at school and in life. Nurseries and childcare centres are...
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Parenting the parents
When elderly parents become frail and in need of the care of their own children, a Pandora’s Box of mixed emotions and anxiety is often opened up for both. Dignity care manager Neville Zammit explains how the adult child can be a good parent to his...
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A tale of changing traditions
As Maltese writer/director Rebecca Cremona prepares the next phase of filming on Simshar, Paula Fleri-Soler sat down with her to discover what influenced her decision to make the film, its themes and her efforts to ensure it remains a wholly Maltese...
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Deportations of Italians from Malta and espionage convictions in the 1930s
In 1922 the British Government closed down the Malta Special Intelligence Bureau, an intelligence-gathering counter-espionage agency, which operated under the leadership of Major R.M. Fox up to 1919. Captain A.E. Austin headed the agency, which had...
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Cardinal Martini and the Church
In October 1987 Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, who had been Archbishop of Milan since 1980, set up the Chair of Non-Believers, a series of meetings on “questions of faith”. Many Italians and foreigners took part in these meetings – intellectuals,...
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Life after the final whistle
Having retired from sport, former swimmer Angela Galea and footballer Jesmond Zerafa speak to Veronica Stivala about maintaining their fitness, eating good food and staying motivated. Angela Galea Retired swimmerCareer highlight: Participating in...
