Everyone has a story. They know someone – a friend’s middle child, their sister’s only daughter, their grandchild, their own daughter. Struggling, anxious, depressed, refusing to go to school, self-harming, bruised by the world. And, it seems, at younger and younger ages. What feels like an epidemic is borne out by the statistics around mental health and young people. To pluck just a couple from the deep and dispiriting well of numbers: more.
How many times a day do you look in the mirror? I work in the image-focused world of television so my answer to that question is possibly a little different to other women. It s only now that I have a daughter that I ve really started counting. It s the odd glance here, the sideways tummy measure in the mirror, the mum-bum readjustment, the chin-hair check - it all adds up. Recently, I started noticing my daughter watching. She is, of course, still too young to understand what she is seeing. To her, mirrors are for singing songs and funny faces and seeing her own little face reflected back but it still gave me pause for thought. This is why I never want to tell my daughter she is pretty.
How many times a day do you look in the mirror? I work in the image-focused world of television so my answer to that question is possibly a little different to other women. It s only now that I have a daughter that I ve really started counting. It s the odd glance here, the sideways tummy measure in the mirror, the mum-bum readjustment, the chin-hair check - it all adds up. Recently, I started noticing my daughter watching. She is, of course, still too young to understand what she is seeing. To her, mirrors are for singing songs and funny faces and seeing her own little face reflected back but it still gave me pause for thought. This is why I never want to tell my daughter she is pretty.
Fathers, Here s Why Your Children Should Have Their Mom s Last Name
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By Sean Braswell
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By Sean Braswell
Being the partner of a queen can be challenging, even emasculating at times. One of the biggest indignities suffered by Britain’s Prince Philip, the 95-year-old husband/consort of Queen Elizabeth II who will retire from public life later this year, was reportedly when the queen, early in their marriage, decided their royal offspring should bear her surname (Windsor) and not his (Mountbatten). “I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children,” Philip complained, according to a biography of the queen by Sally Bedell Smith. “I’m nothing but a bloody amoeba.”