🌳 Amanda Owen, a hill farmer and unlikely social media star, raises her children with husband Clive "free range"
📺 The family's life was shown on the TV show, Our Yorkshire Farm, the children:
📌 Roam the countryside
📌 Don't have phones
📌 Work in all weather
🤦♀️ Owen revealed that she despairs at the "snowflake" generation.
"They can’t do anything. They don't know anything about how to look after themselves, or a work ethic, all of that has gone out of the window. It's our fault as parents" telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/0…
🪜“If you put your child on a pedestal with no sense of independence, and think you have got to entertain them the whole time, what can you expect?
"I feel like it is their life and all I do is prepare them," Owen said
Are parents to blame for the ‘snowflake generation’?
❄️ The term "snowflake generation" was one of @CollinsDict's 2016 words of the year.
🔖 The dictionary defines the term as "the young adults of the 2010s (born 1980-1994).
Snowflakes are viewed as being:
📌 Less resilient
📌 Prone to taking offence
Do you believe the ‘snowflake generation’ stereotypes are correct?
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🔴 Police in the UK recorded 248 murders involving a knife or sharp instrument in 2020.
Most of the victims were young men.
Each victim leaves behind a distraught family – including, in most cases, a grieving mother 🧵 telegraph.co.uk/women/life/scr…
The Met Police have launched a campaign, in which mothers affected by knife crime call on the public to contact Crimestoppers with any information that might prevent violence.
Here, three mothers tell their stories 👇
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🔴 Lorraine Jones, a church minister, was unpacking shopping at her home in Brixton on 25th Feb 2014, when two young people knocked on her door and told her that her 20-year-old son, Dwayne Simpson, had been stabbed in a nearby park
💉 On Wednesday the JCVI recommended that under 30s are offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca jab
For Alexandra Phillips, this sensible decision does not vindicate the Trumpian manoeuvres of Macron and Merkel in the weeks leading up to the announcement👇🧵
🇫🇷 @ThatAlexWoman on President Macron’s interpretation of the science
‘Macron’s smears of the AZ jab fly in the face of advice from the WHO, who have repeatedly implored leaders to continue with the rollout - making it plain that the jab is critical in the fight against Covid’
🇫🇷 Macron’s initial attacks were over the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca jab
💉 However, a US study recently showed that the AstraZeneca vaccine is 100% effective against severe or critical disease and hospitalisation
"If you go on a TV talent show that majors on theatrical emoting, dodgy cover versions, faux sincere judges and the lure of instant fame and fortune, then perhaps you’re setting yourself up to be manipulated" | Writes @JamesFHall
Amid ongoing fears over blood clots, healthy people ages 18 to 29 are to be offered the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines instead of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jabs.