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Tony Blair admitted smacking his three older children last week, but said he had never hit his five-year-old son Leo. According to the Independent, the prime minister revealed his 'change in attitude to corporal punishment' at the same time as he launched the Government's Give Respect, Get Respect action plan to tackle anti-social behaviour.
Tony Blair admitted smacking his three older children last week, but said he had never hit his five-year-old son Leo. According to the Independent, the prime minister revealed his 'change in attitude to corporal punishment'

at the same time as he launched the Government's Give Respect, Get Respect action plan to tackle anti-social behaviour.

Nurseries like punctual parents, but Louise Owen, the pregnant wife of England football star Michael Owen, was banned from driving for going 104mph on her way to collect her daughter on her first day at nursery, the Daily Record reported.

More than a third of working mothers buy 'guilt gifts' for their children because they feel so bad about deserting them, claimed the Daily Mail. A survey by insurance company More Than Business said presents ranged from a bag of sweets to a 1,000 flat-screen television.

A 23-year-old mother from from Southampton has had a ten-inch wide portrait of her new baby tattooed across her chest. 'I love my baby so much that I wanted a tattoo of her close to my heart forever,' Kamila Lesniak told The Sun.