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...
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....
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....
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...
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 The teen became withdrawn and angry at everything his mother said.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....
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...
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...
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...