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Precocious child wows dinner guests with talents

A newlywed couple have reassessed their previously indifferent attitude towards having children after the dinner show performed by their best friends’ four-year-old son last Saturday.

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Posted: Jan 8th, 2010
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Facebook admits hidden ‘Can we eat your children?’ checkbox

After recent protests about misleading ‘Terms and Conditions’ which led users to unwittingly allow personal data and images to be used in advertising, the social networking site Facebook was forced to admit today that there is also a ‘Can we eat your children?’ option tucked away deep on its privacy pages.

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Posted: Jul 28th, 2009
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British children ‘feeling under pressure to be fat’

impressionable children loging on to 'pro-curvy' websitesCharities have issued a stark warning to the Government that today’s children are feeling under increasing pressure to be fat owing to the steady diet of images they are force-fed by the media. ‘Children only need to open a magazine or switch on their television sets to be bombarded with so-called ‘positive’ images of chubby kids,’ said Victoria Reason of Save the Children. ‘The idea that obesity holds the key to commercial success, self-worth and popularity is being rammed down their throats everywhere they look. But one look at these images will tell you that they are pedalling an ideal most children can never hope to attain. Not on only three meals a day.’

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Posted: May 18th, 2009
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