Family and Society – Page 8

I crave silence but loud music blares from all over the house

ENC News 20 Nov 2017

My four adult children all have different musical tastes. I know this because they still live at home and play music loudly and constantly, so that, as I progress through...

My family is great, but I feel as though I have no friends.

ENC News 14 Nov 2017

Mariella Frostrup responds to a lonely mother. The dilemma I am 38, happily married with two children and have a job I enjoy. However I have found myself plagued by anxiety...

Any problem is solvable

ENC News 31 Oct 2017

Nine years ago, Jacqui Jepson started cleaning houses to support her children after her divorce. Today, she runs The Pink Wand Cleaning Services, a million-dollar company based in Airdrie, Alberta...

A City of the Future, Digital Dreamin Toronto

ENC News 23 Oct 2017

A city of the future, digital dream, has found its first home in Toronto. Sidewalk Labs LLC, the urban innovation unit of Page’s Alphabet Inc., and Waterfront Toronto plan to...

Oxford aims to cut air pollution with car ban in zero emissions zone

ENC News 17 Oct 2017

Polluting vehicles could be banned from Oxford city centre under plans to bring in what officials believe would be the world’s first zero emissions zone. The proposals aim to slash air...

One in Four Kids in the Developing World Misses out on a Bedtime Story, says UN

ENC News 26 Sep 2017

A quarter of young children in developing countries miss out on playing, reading and singing with their parents, according to research by Unicef. The UN children’s agency has warned in...

Teachable Moments

ENC News 04 Sep 2017

Retired English Literature teacher Shirley Murphy living most of the year in Florida speaks about her relationship with students Shirley Murphy says she’d still be teaching English lit at Idaho...

A deep teal is the world’s favourite colour, according to survey

ENC News 26 Aug 2017

A global survey supported by Hull City of Culture 2017 has found the hue that humans most prefer. The World’s Favourite Colour, conducted by paper makers G. F Smith with...

A-Level students left under prepared and disadvantaged for this year’s exams, finds survey

ENC News 22 Aug 2017

Almost half the number of students surveyed reported mistakes by exam boards in their exam papers this summer. A-level students were left underprepared for this year’s exams, they have claimed,...

For A Boy In An Adult Prison, His Mother’s Letters ‘Were Everything’

ENC News 14 Aug 2017

As a 15-year-old growing up in Washington, D.C., Marcus Bullock knew his mother, the Rev. Sylvia Bullock, was working hard to raise him and his sibling on her own. When Marcus...

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