It seems Crown Princess Mary just can’t help embracing her inner child when it comes to Legoland.
The royal took time out of her busy schedule for a special mother-son bonding day with her youngest boy, Prince Vincent.
And the Princess even let her little Prince take the wheel on one of the rides!
The pair were spotted on the Jungle Racers ride, a water ride that’s very popular in the park and that states it’s for “speed addicts who don’t mind getting their feet wet.”
Prince Vincent concentrates super hard on the task at hand, while Mary waves to the crowds. (Pic/Twitter)
Mary parked Vincent in the driver’s seat, confident he could handle the responsibility, while she waved to her adoring fans.
Yearly visits to Legoland are a family tradition for the whole Danish royal family.
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Princess Mary lets a young Princess Isabella take the wheel at a previous Legoland outing.
Prince Frederik, Prince Christian and Princesses Isabella and Josephine can regularly be seen laughing and playing on all the rides and attractions each year.
When Prince Christian was just a young boy, the then young royal parents took him on a special trip to the theme park.
Frederik and Mary even took Christian when he was very young!
And the other royal children have attended at various times.
But this was a special day just for the 44-year-old Crown Princess and her five-year-old son.
Although the weather was rather grim and cloudy, the pair made the most of it, dressing warmly in waterproof jackets and having a wild time.
Her 14-year-old daughter was allegedly raped and sodomised at her own school, but her attacker is still a free man due to a legal loophole allowing paedophiles to escape justice.
A Sydney mother told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that her daughter’s alleged abuser has never been punished because police view her daughter’s testimony as “unreliable” because she has an intellectual disability.
The woman – known by the pseudonym CIC – told the royal commission her teen daughter was raped by a staff member at Camden’s Mater Dei School in 1991.
She immediately lodged complaints with the school and police but they were never followed up because police believe her daughter wasn’t a credible witness, despite the fact that the same staff member had previously been accused of molesting a 15-year-old student with an intellectual disability and an eight-year-old boy with Down syndrome.
“It is so easy for people in positions of trust to abuse children under their care because they know a disabled child may not be able to communicate and report their abuse as easily as others can,” the mother said.
“Matters are not pursued by police or in court because these children are deemed incompetent or less reliable due to their disability.”
The alleged attacked moved from Australia to the UK shortly after the incident and remains there, a free man.
“People like him can get away with abusing children with disabilities like my daughter,” the mother said. “I am really upset and can’t stand that he is still out there and could be assaulting other children.”
The school’s current principal is due to give evidence later this week and the principal in charge at the time of the alleged assault will give evidence next week.
She’s already wearing her old engagement ring from him, and now Miley has gone for something even more permanent to remind everyone of her Aussie man, Liam Hemsworth.
The pop star has made a trip to the tattoo parlour to get herself a very Australian inking.
Flaunting her love for her Melbourne-born beau, the Wrecking Ball singer’s latest design was shared on her tattoo artist’s Instagram page and it’s made us all kinds of hungry because Miley’s new ink is a teeny tiny jar of Vegemite!
“@mileycyrus don’t play when it comes to #vegemite #halfneedle,” LA-based tattoo artist Doctor Woo Tattoo mused alongside the snap of his quirky creation.
Of course, the spread has always been rather controversial in the land Down Under, with people either loving it or hating it.
Miley’s a happy little Vegemite with her new ink. (Pic/_drwoo Instagram)
Liam has made no secret of the fact that he’s obsessed with the nation’s iconic spread.
“After-school Milo and Vegemite on toast. I lived on it,” he told Sunday Style recently.
Liam loves a bit of the cheeky spread on toast.
The 26-year-old actor even demonstrated the perfect way to spread it on toast on a US talk show.
“You start off with some butter,” the Independence Day: Resurgence star explained. “You want the right consistency with it all. You want to get a little scraping of Vegemite… You don’t want to smother it on because it can be a little bit much.”
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Miley already has plenty of other tattoos.
And that’s not the only family member of the Hemsworth clan that 23-year-old Miley is honouring with her tattoos.
In May, the singer and actress had a wave tattoo on display… the same wave tattoo Elsa Pataky, Chris Hemsworth’s wife, has.
Looks like she’s well and truly part of the family!
Three people are dead and a fourth in a critical condition in hospital after another fatal shooting in the US.
The incident began at about 2.25pm when an unidentified man opened fire on the third floor of Michigan’s Berrien County Courthouse.
“The person had shot two bailiffs, they’re both deceased, and shot a deputy sheriff who is at the hospital right now being treated in an emergency room,” Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey confirmed at a press conference.
The deputy sheriff is believed to be in a critical condition at Lakeland Regional Hospital and it is unsure whether he will survive.
Bailey said “several civilians” were also injured and taken to hospital but are all in a stable condition.
The gunman was subsequently shot and killed by police.
“We’re asking people to pray for the families of the deceased,” Bailey said.
A woman has been jailed for three years for torturing a toddler over a period of 15 months.
Lanna Monaghan, 34, who is currently pregnant with another child, admitted putting the collar – which delivers electric shocks – on the boy more than once in July 2015 to test how effective it was.
Glasgow’s High Court also heard she forced the child to take icy showers, bit him, kicked him, and repeatedly beat with a wooden spoon, once so hard the implement snapped.
The horrific abuse took place from April 2015 to July 2015 and only ended when a family member reporter Monaghan to the authorities.
“You have pleaded guilty to a catalogue of offences over the period of 15 months involving the physical abuse of a defenceless little boy,” judge Lady Rae told Managhan, who wept throughout her sentencing hearing.
“He did not suffer lasting physical effects, but it is impossible to determine what the emotional impact on this little boy will be in the future.
“This defenceless little boy must have been terrified of you. You should be thankful that you were eventually reported for what you were doing.”
Bradley Cooper and his girlfriend Irina Shayk appeared to have a very different kind of match than the one happening on court at the Wimbledon men’s final.
The pair appeared to be right in the middle of an argument and the atmosphere was so awkward that even people watching the game began to notice.
Bradley appeared to be desperately trying to talk to Irina, but she would have none of it.
She remained stony faced and sullen, at one stage turning away from her 41-year-old beau to wipe tears from her eyes.
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That doesn’t look like a fun conversation.
The actor seemed to be trying as hard as he could to end the issue but the hostility between them was palpable, and people took to social media to speculate.
“Uh oh, I think Bradley Cooper is in a fight,” one user piped up.
“Pray for Bradley Cooper!” another said, next to a video of Irina turning away from her man.
The duo looked particularly tense…
Not even Bradley’s boyish charm could make Irina budge.
Many speculated the awkward exchange was due to the fact that Bradley’s ex, Suki Waterhouse, was also in the building.
It was a very different story earlier on in the tournament, with the two showing loads of PDA while watching the previous matches.
Just the other day, the pair couldn’t keep their hands off each other.
Meanwhile a source has come forward claiming the pair were not fighting.
“They were not fighting,” the insider revealed to E Online. “Everything is fine.”
The smaller they are the larger their curiosity, so even in the safest environments children can find danger. The Weekly Online investigates the hidden dangers in the home.
We’ve all heard the horror stories of kids getting their curious hands (and mouths) on unsuitable household items, resulting in the one hospital trip every parent dreads – and most importantly, wants to avoid.
So what are the most common hidden dangers to children in the home?
The Weekly Online speaks to Dr Louis Cheung, a General Paediatrician at the Prince of Wales Hospital, to find out what household items are leaving Australian children in emergency ward.
1.Paracetamol and Iron supplements
Lock up the medicine cupboard – it’s one of the oldest rules in the parenting book. But what many parents may not know is even the over-the-counter medications (which often seem safe to leave on the kitchen table) can be detrimental if they get into the wrong hands.
While iron supplements can benefit the health of vegetarians, vegans and the iron deficient, they can also be fatal, potentially causing liver failure if consumed by young ones unnecessarily.
“Surprisingly the majority of the poisonings that we see are actually medication related,” says Dr. Chueng.
“People think that it’s relatively benign and so they’re pretty relaxed about it but if we look at [the cases] coming in paracetamol – by and far – is the most common sort of unintentional overdose in our younger kids because it’s so common in the cupboard and easily accessed. Not all the kids die from it but it is potentially dangerous.”
Paracetamol for young children is also more potent than regular paracetamol, says Dr. Chueng, as “the baby drops are quite concentrated obviously because they want to get into a small baby.”
Often the impact of these medications can be delayed, too, as they don’t have a drowsing effect, so it is difficult to notice when a child has consumed them out of sight. And iron supplements in particular are hard to extract, says Dr. Chueng, as “the body absorbs iron very well”.
So make sure they are out of reach, and clean out the medicine cupboard regularly to avoid having medications you don’t need any more being an unnecessary risk in the home.
2.Water (and not just in the swimming pool)
Whether you have a swimming pool or not, water remains an enormous safety hazard for your kids.
Drownings are the second largest cause of death in children Australia-wide, says Dr. Cheung, and this can occur in even a small pool of water.
“We have seen a few cases where the water hasn’t been of great volume.
“Even a little bucket of water in the garden for instance – probably 10 to 20 centimetres of water – and the child’s head gets stuck in there.”
So supervising your children in a shallow bath and making sure buckets around the house are in fact empty are just as important as making sure the pool gate is shut.
3.Blinds and cords
The limitless curiosity of children can be harmful in the lounge room and kitchen, with blinds in particular putting their safety at risk.
Curtain and blind cords can be a hazardous trap for kids to potentially strangle themselves with, so keep these cords out of reach.
But it’s not just the obvious cords in the home that can be a risk. Cords connected to toasters, kettles or other kitchen supplies can be dangerous, with some children ending up at the hospital after tugging them, resulting in the appliance falling off the bench, and sometimes on top of them.
So keep all appliances out of reach, says Dr. Cheung, and put them away whenever you can.
4.Batteries
Children suffocating on and ingesting small dangerous items around the house is always a worry for parents. And batteries are particularly harmful as once swallowed “they actually get digested by the stomach juices,” says Dr. Cheung, which releases the heavy metals which can cause major health problems.
“They don’t necessarily come to the parents’ attention if they swallow a battery immediately,” says Dr. Cheung.
“And then you find out afterwards. Usually by the time it’s dissolved.”
But other items around the house which may seem completely innocent, can also cause trouble in the vicinity of curious and hungry children.
Children coming into emergency have often ingested “mushy bread” and grapes says Dr Cheung, so if you’re children do have a fondness for these foods in particular, make sure they’re out of reach when you’re not supervising your kids at the dinner table.
“They’re always experimenting,” says Dr. Cheung. “That is the issue.”
5.Oven cleaner and bleach
While liquids laced with chemicals are a worry for parents, they are not often desirable to children, says Dr. Cheung, as they are unlikely to drink or consume “something that tastes disgusting”.
But if curious kids do consume or touch even a small amount of some liquids – like oven cleaner and bleach – they can cause serious harm.
“So even if they taste it and it doesn’t taste nice, they can still cause significant burns around the mouth and the nose area which is an issue for the airways,” says Dr. Cheung.
And while children arriving in hospital wards after drinking alcohol-based hand sanitiser have made headlines recently, it is not common says Dr. Cheung, as most hand sanitisers don’t taste nice. But to avoid risk, opt for hand sanitisers that aren’t flavoured.
And the paediatrician’s biggest piece of advice?
“Don’t underestimate your child. They can get into anything.”
For a seemingly inoffensive supermarket staple, cheese sure knows how to cause a stir.
When it’s not accompanying your weekend wine or saving the day with a quick and easy dinner (hello, mac and cheese), it’s at the middle of some mysterious myths.
So we’ve taken it upon ourselves to get to the bottom of them once and for all.
MYTH: Cheese is bad for your health
Full-fat dairy foods such as cheese, butter and milk cop a lot of blame for health problems such as due to their high level of saturated fats. However, a 2012 study of 5,000 Australians showed that people with a higher intake of dairy actually had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Another study at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne also revealed that eating cheese over a four-week period didn’t adversely affect people’s cholesterol levels as predicted. Conclusion: brie isn’t the bad guy.
MYTH: Cheese gives you nightmares
Ever since Ebenezer Scrooge blamed a “crumb of cheese” for his ghoulish encounters in A Christmas Carol, urban legend would have us believe that eating cheese before bed leads to bad dreams. But in actual fact cheese can be said to regulate sleep – it contains an amino acid called tryptophan which is linked to stable mood and sleep function. A 2005 study by the British Cheese Board also reported no nightmares after giving 200 participants a small piece of cheese 30 minutes before bed. They did note that those who ate cheddar predominantly dreamt about celebrities. Random.
MYTH: Low-fat cheese is healthier
If you’re on a diet or just being cautious with calories ahead of a holiday, switching to low-fat foods is a no-brainer, but you could be falling into a low-fat trap. It’s no secret that full-fat cheese contains more fat, but it also contains a whole lot more protein, too. That means it will keep hunger pangs at bay for longer and help you avoid any calorie-drenched munchies. A Curtin University of Technology study backs this up. It found that increasing your dairy intake can help with weight loss because the extra protein helps to speed up your metabolism. Pass the Gouda.
MYTH: You can’t eat cheese if you’re lactose intolerant
Turns out you don’t have to fully eliminate cheese from your diet if you’re lactose intolerant. In some cases, such as parmesan, cheese doesn’t actually contain any lactose content at all. In others, such as cheddar, Swiss cheese and brie, the lactose content is so minimal – about 0.04g in a 40g block – that it can still be tolerated. As a general rule of thumb, switch to hard cheeses as these contain less lactose and always check the label’s sugar content. Lactose is listed under sugar, so if the number is low or zero, it should still be safe for you to enjoy.
MYTH: Mice love cheese
If you’ve got little ones, chances are they think mice exist solely on a diet of cheese! Countless movies, cartoons and nursery rhymes play on the myth, but it’s actually far from true. A 2006 Manchester Metropolitan University study discovered that mice avoid cheese, instead satisfying their sweet tooth with grains, fruits and other sweet things. If hungry enough, they won’t turn their nose up at a bit of cheese or cardboard, but save the stilton for you. It’s too pungent for their sensitive noses and they’ll smell your trap a mile away.
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My Kitchen Rules star Pete Evans has angered cancer research experts after advising his 1.5 million Facebook fans to spend time in the sun, sans sun protection.
The celebrity chef frequently surfs with his two daughters Indii and Chilli.
When asked by a fan on his official Facebook page what sunscreen he prefers, the father-of-two replied admitting that he wears “generally nothing” and that those who do slip slop slap are simply covering “themselves in poisonous chemicals.”
“I keep an all over tan all year and don’t stay out for super long periods in the sun,” he said before revealing that when he spends four hours in the sun, he uses a product called Surf Mud which hasn’t been approved by the Australian TGA as an efficient sunscreen.
“The silly thing is people put on normal chemical sunscreen then lay out in the sun for hours on end and think that they are safe because they have covered themselves in poisonous chemicals which is a recipe for disaster as we are witnessing these days,” the polarising chef explained.
“We need to respect the sun but not hide from it either as it is so beneficial for us, but use common sense. The goal is always never to burn yourself.”
Sun damage starts in as little as ten minutes, and can occur without a sunburn – just ask Kim Kardashian!
Whilst it’s true that sunbaking for hours on end, even with sunscreen on, isn’t a wise health decision, advising readers to forgo sun protection altogether can relay severe consequences, says The Cancer Council’s director of education Terry Slevin.
“The science is clear, increased exposure to UV radiation equals an increased risk of skin cancer and this is from people who have been researching this for decades,” the health professional told News.com.au.
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“Sunscreen use, including UV absorbers, which he refers to as chemical sunscreen, has been proven to reduce skin cancer risk.”
“The question is who should people take their advice from on sun protection. Mr Evans is not someone I would call on for that advice. It’s yet another case of someone (in this case with a media profile) undermining the safety and efficacy of sunscreen.”
Considering that sun damage starts in as little as ten minutes, and skin cancers cause 1400 deaths in Australia each year, we think we might continue to slip slop slap with good old-fashioned suncream liberally, thank you very much.
Sunscreen has been proven to prevent basal cell carcinomas and melanomas.
Most women dream of beginning a family with the perfect partner, but sometimes Mister Right, or The Perfect Partner whatever the persuasion may be, is elusive.
Sadly, the biological clock waits for no (wo)man. If there is a gentle ticking in your life, should you continue waiting in hope that if and when they come along you will still be able to conceive?
Natalie Cooley, now 40, began looking at her options at 35 years old because she did not want waiting for a partner to affect her dream for a child.
“I’ve been single a long time. I was dating but I didn’t meet that special someone. It’s not that I don’t want a man, or I wasn’t waiting for him, I just worried that I was running out of time,” says Natalie.
“At 35, I decided to freeze my eggs and wait for Mister Right, but after a few months I wondered why I was waiting because even if I did find Mister Right, there was no guarantees it would work out and it would just delay me again with my age and put me back with a baby.”
Natalie’s family was 100% supportive of her going it alone, and they were with her throughout the journey. Natalie also found that men she dated during the five years it took were also supportive and willing to stick around, but none of them were the special man she was seeking.
“I had 10 rounds of IVF, and eventually after five years of trying, I have a three week old daughter,” she says.
“I did every possible thing to have her. She was planned and wanted and loved. I have no regrets, although I wish I started sooner. When you think you are ready doesn’t necessarily mean it will happen.”
Celeste Ferraris waited for her partner of nine years to be ready to begin a family but when it became apparent that day was not imminent, they separated.
“It ended when I finally realised it wasn’t going to happen in the timeframe I needed it to, I was 38. I decided then to look into my fertility options – either freezing eggs or perhaps going it alone,” Celeste tells.
A fertility diagnosis revealed a low egg count, which made Celeste reconsider undergoing the procedure.
“At the age of 38, even though I had little chance of falling pregnant due to the low egg reserve, after considering IVF alone, I actually decided that I didn’t want to have children on my own.
“When I decided to try IVF at the age of 41 after I had naturally fallen pregnant but miscarried, I felt very differently. I had moved through that break up, grown as a person, found inner strength and confidence that I could manage on my own.”
Unfortunately, after 15 months and three cycles, Celeste was unsuccessful in her dream for a child, leaving her wondering if beginning sooner would have had a different outcome.
For some mums, the concern is that it may not be the best outcome for a child to be born without a father present but research shows that children born to single mums with no father present are as well-adjusted as other kids.
The study conducted by the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge, UK, evaluated 51 solo mothers with children from donors and 52 two-parent families. They also took into consideration things like education and demographic factors.
Although there was a reported higher level of financial and parenting stress with the solo mothers, the children showed no significant difference between the two circumstances.
“Between the ages of four and nine, donor-conceived children in solo mother families generally seem to be doing well,” reported Dr Sophie Zadeh in the study.
“However, we don’t yet know how these children will fare over time, or what they will think and feel about being donor-conceived and/or growing up without a father in the home as they grow older.
“In general, our findings seem to suggest that what matters most for children’s outcomes in solo mother families is not the absence of a father, nor donor conception, but the quality of parenting, and positive parent-child relationships.
“These findings therefore echo much of what we already know about the determinants of children’s psychological adjustment in other family types.”
If you’re waiting for the right partner to begin your family, and they don’t turn up you have three options, suggests fertility specialist, Dr David Knight from Demeter Fertility.
“You can decide not to have kids, you can go ahead and use donor sperm and have a baby by yourself or you can freeze your eggs,” he says.
“It’s a very individual and personal choice.”
“The earlier people freeze eggs the likelier they are to work. However, if you do it too early chances are you may meet someone and you will never need to use the eggs. You do it too late, and the quality of the eggs may they may not work anyway,” tells Dr Knight.
“The sweet spot seems to be about 36 or 37 years old. It seems about the time where you get best value for money regarding use,” he says.
“The bottom line is it depends how much people are prepared to pay for reproductive insurance.”
The process of retrieving eggs costs the same as IVF. Then you pay monthly, or annually to freeze them but this process still comes with no assurance of a perfect partner coming along.
Australia currently has the second highest number, after Italy, of women choosing not to have children so if that’s the path you choose to take, you are certainly no longer an anomaly.
But if a child is your deepest desire, know that the choice right for you, will also be the choice right for a child.
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