The SafetyNet campaign might have the safety and protection of children at its heart but its using the wrong tactics. Those tactics will not help vulnerable children any more than an 18 certificate on a DVD will. Educate parents, get them to speak to their kids, help them. Don’t try to scare them into signing up for a law which a) won’t get passed and b) would be worse than good if it was.
Tag: family
Eat out and help a family?
What if all restaurant meals had this? What if every restaurant meal over a certain threshold (let’s say £3) had an automatic “tax” of 10p? Not 10% just 10p? How much would this raise? What if this were used to fund something like the WFP or maybe even fund free school dinners for more children in the UK?
This is the day the Lord has made…
Somebody once said “There’s no such thing as a normal day”. That is true but there are definitely abnormal days. Days that really could only happen once. At least there had better be or else the day described here could happen again. Before I go any further I want to say this is all absolutely true (except the Bon Jovi bit which I can’t prove). Oh and wouldn’t read this while eating if I were you.
Christmas is for the kids
It’s a popular meme at this time of year that Christmas is for the kids and … I thought it might be nice to share some Christmas-related, children-related quotes