Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Monday | April 13, 2009
From runaway boy to successful horse trainer
Lawrence Freemantle is a fighter in more ways than one. So, after he landed in trouble in all-age school, and got suspended, the self-proclaimed brilliant boy decided to say good-bye to a formal education. An older friend of his got him fascinated with the whole idea of being... Read More...
Bedtime story: A family of doggies - Then there were three
My name is Yoda and I am one year old. I have short and glossy honey-coloured hair. You met my Mummy Eloise last week, but I have two Mummies who look after me. The other one is a human. I think my Daddy was a Rhodesian Ridgeback because that is what I look like.... Read More...
Fathers jealous of their children?
After 10 years with his spouse, he thought all was well until the first baby came along. Just under two years later, a second child was born and a crack began to appear in the otherwise silky-smooth relationship. The birth of the children was to determine the outcome.... Read More...
Baby's room, Fit for a prince?
They say that a pregnant woman will know when she's about to go into labour because a sudden nesting instinct will kick in. The night before I went into preterm labour, when I was not much more than 26 weeks along, my husband... Read More...
My parents are getting a divorce - Who is to be blame?
The loving and honest relationship that Karen Willishad with her 16-year-old son soon come to an end when he learned that his parents were getting a divorce. The teen became withdrawn and angry at everything his mother said. This got his mother furious as she believed.... Read More...
Rocky marriage? Talk, talk, no divorce
Though a rocky marriage can be challenging to repair, couples should choose communication rather than divorce, an expert has said.Anthony Gordon, certified family-life counsellor at the Central Jamaica Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist, said... Read More...
Taking care of my special-needs child
Q I am a 30-year-old mother of a four-year-old child with a serious physical disability. My son was born in Antigua when I was working there. I had to come back home early as there was not enough help there for him... Read More...
No arguing in front of the children!
Parents who have a stable, loving relationship model a shining example of love and marriage for their children. Bearing in mind that children live what they learn, parents should argue and nit-pick away from their kids... Read More...
