Guidelines for emotional development
This is the final instalment from the soon-to-be-published book on parenting by educator Dr Faith Linton and psychologist Dr Barry Davidson. The following guide-lines will help you to become more aware of the stages of your child's emotional development during the first four years...
Get your child immunised
IT IS very important that children are immunised as they grow. Immunisation is important as it protects children against communicable diseases, such as measles, mumps, tuberculosis, polio, rubella and hepatitis, through a vaccine...
'I want my son to eat more'
Q Keep up the good work. I have a four-year-old son and I do not know what other ways I can try to get him to eat. I try to prepare his meals in different ways and give him a variety, but he just barely wants to eat anything.
Proposed abortion laws could undermine parental authority
Concerns have been raised that proposed legislation crafted from the recommendations of the abortion policy advisory review group could usurp the Child Care and Protection Act, if it gets the stamp of approval from Parliament. Dr Doreen Brady-West who is based at the department...
Contain the birth rate, says Younis
Businessman Sameer Younis has added his voice to the call for abortion to be legalised. Younis, the chairman of the Civic Affairs Committee of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), argued recently that making abortion legal would contain the spiralling...
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