As my high need baby grows into an almost 2 year old, I am — and believe me, I am not bragging — now
the enlightened mother of a child who is going through her terrible twos.
Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria
of suffering from actual instances
of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their
mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets;
enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw
of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the
child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»
Young dads are some
of the most marginalised parents in the UK; apart from via a few
enlightened services, like Young Dads TV, they often lack support from families and professionals — even when in a close relationship with the
mother of their
children.
The First Lady made this call during a working visit to her office by some Chiefs and Queen
mothers from Central region to
enlighten her on some concerns
of the traditional authorities in the region especially those bordering on jobs, early
child marriages, education and development
of the region.