We can’t offer them a trip to the Chesapeake Bay model. It’s been gone since the 1980s but perhaps a visit to Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Dorchester County where American bald eagles fly over tidal marshes so shallow you could not paddle a boat across them but teaming with ...
They’re almost invisible, you’d probably not even notice them if you weren’t paying specific attention to individual specks of dust. The best way I have found to spot these tiny little mites is to use a good light at a perpendicular angle, so the specks of dust cast a little shadow...
with her cat and she described her as ‘family’ and a ‘best friend’ ([38], pp.1973–4). In some cases, residents spoke of animals as being almost superior to humans, praising their care for their young, their kindness, love and loyalty, and how they could teach humans to care an...
Table 6. Resources that healthcare professionals report would be most useful to help them to best support children and young people across key topic areas (frequency of HCPs selecting this resource). Empty CellTraining or information/resource for youResource for parent/carerResource for child/ young...
Reviewers were realistic about how much they could achieve and acknowledged limitations: They all tell me they're on a healthy diet but I don't believe it … they'll be overweight or … they're diabetic and they've got chocolate on the side … you get to know whether they're ...
Caring for their pet could also be a way of maintaining the role of carer and keep- ing that "part of themselves that they valued alive" ([44], p.8). In some cases, residents needed staff help with the practical care of their pets, and accepted that sharing responsibility with others...
And so, she bids farewell to Johnny and heads to Chicago, where her only relative, a comfortable but crotchety bachelor, lives. Her uncle thinks little of her plans for a career: “I think you are a crazy young kid. You have no business in business,” he tells her. After several rej...
There are times when we young people feel stressed, when changes get hard to manage, or when it is just too hard for us to collect our thoughts.4That may be a parent or carer, grandparent, aunt or uncle, teacher, neighbor or even an older brother or sister. Change can sometimes be ...
Caring for their pet could also be a way of maintaining the role of carer and keep- ing that "part of themselves that they valued alive" ([44], p.8). In some cases, residents needed staff help with the practical care of their pets, and accepted that sharing responsibility with others...
you can’t do nothing about it” ([41], p.32). Visiting animals could prompt residents to talk about these pets and tell stories of how they came to live in the care home. These stories could be a mixture of regret about having to give up a pet and gratitude for the person taking...