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My husband and I have been unrelenting in our decision against the request. My husband doesn't want a dog barking all the time and jumping up on people, and I don't like dog hair on everything. We don't live in the country where we could keep a dog outside, either. Lately, however, I'm wondering whether maybe we're making a mistake by not allowing the girls the experience of owning a dog. My husband and I both enjoyed having dogs growing up. Too soon our children (we also have a son, age 11, and another daughter, 8) will be grown and gone. Do you have any suggestions for a dog that is good with kids, easy-going, easy to train, doesn't shed (much) and is medium-sized? I'd appreciate any advice you can give us. Thank you. .
Kenya: Widow Lives in Fear After Death Threats and Raid
A year after the Marsabit plane crash claimed her husband, Ms Bernadette Okotu Shama lives in fear. The widow of former Moyale MP Guracha Galgalo, who was among 14 people who perished in the accident, says she has been constantly harassed, assaulted in public and her home raided by gunmen. .
The Daddying Movement
I propose naming this revolution the daddying movement. I coined the term daddying more than a decade ago to describe the active, involved exuberance of my parenting, and the parenting of other men I knew. “Fatherhood" seemed passive and dull, flat and one-dimensional; its gerund, “fathering," suggested a one-time biological act, requiring no greater commitment than a bit of DNA. “Daddying" conveyed the sense of the lifelong process that I relished as I embraced my responsibilities for my children's well-being: physical, emotional, social, intellectual, creative, moral and spiritual. Becoming a parent changes one's identity instantly and forever. This new word not only captures that fundamental change, but also embodies the realization that fathers matterin their presence as well as their absence.
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