LPN Third Thursday - Surviving Cancer

Christmas Fair

Гастроли московского драматического театра "Бенефис"

8 и 9 ноября 2014 года приглашаем детей и их родителей на музыкально-волшебную фантастическую феерию «ШЛЯМПОМПО».

Ох, и непростое же это дело – воспитание…Особенно если хочешь, чтобы в результате сформировалась личность! Вот и добрая волшебница Ригби пытается обучить озорного кота Дикона хорошим манерам. А чтобы у того перед глазами был достойный пример, волшебница оживляет огородное пугало Шлямпомпо. Совершая раз за разом добрые поступки, Шлямпомпо уже без помощи колдовства на глазах у зрителей превращается в Настоящего Человека. 

Спектакль поставлен по мотивам народных английских сказок, а музыкальным оформлением к нему служит музыка всемирно известных групп «ABBA» и «Boney M», которая поднимет настроение всем без исключения зрителям.

МЕСТО И ВРЕМЯ ПРОВЕДЕНИЯ:
8 ноября – 11.00, Никосия (театр Сатирико),
8 ноября – 17.00, Ларнака (театр Скала),
9 ноября – 11.00, Пафос (театр Маркидео),
9 ноября – 17.00, Лимассол (театр Полемидия).

Главные роли в этом детском спектакле играют "звезды" телесериалов:
Евгений Вакунов («Кремлевские курсанты»,«Глухарь. Продолжение»,«Дубровский», «Только ты»),
Семен Почивалов («Папины дочки»,«Барвиха»,«Татьянин день» ,«Девичник»),
Валерия Сухачева («Монах»,«След», «Пожар», главная роль в фильме "Честь самурая").

Рекомендованный возраст: от 5-ти лет.
Продолжительность: 1 час 10 минут без антракта.
Стоимость билетов 12 евро.
Дополнительная информация по телефону 96 30 2770 и
на сайте www.magictheatre.ru

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT PARENTING - With Dr Brenda Davies

Where: Apothikes, Saint Lazarus street, 79, Larnaka, Larnaca, Cyprus

When: Saturday 22nd November

Time: Choose either Morning 10.00 - 13.00 or Afternoon 14.00 - 17.00

Dr. Brenda Davies, MD is a Consultant Psychiatrist, healer, peace-builder, author of 7 books, founder and teacher of an international healing and self-development school with students in 8 countries. Her medical knowledge lends credibility when combining it with healing in her work. Brenda meets you with a down-to-earth and caring approach with a lot of humour and compassion and would be delighted to meet you during her time in Cyprus.

Being a parent if often very hard. Raising our children to have good values, good ethics and high integrity often tests us. Negotiating various stages of childhood and adolescence, dealing with sibling rivalries, peer pressures, substance abuse, childhood depression and just trying to understand our child who is now becoming an independent being, can be a bit of a minefield, while we also balance home, career and our own personal life, health, hurts and losses and still sometimes try to parent ourselves. But being a parent is also one of the greatest gifts of being human which is why we keep doing it! So why not come and ask questions of Dr. Brenda, share, discuss and have your heart soothed in this lively session of questions and answers on parenting.


Dr Brenda Davies travels from Zambia and will be conducting a range of workshops throughout Cyprus during November, charging a nominal amount only to cover costs of travel.


Participation €30


Reservations: Hatzy: 99667039 * Sue: 99622504

Starting ‘em young - Paula Manoli-Gray

My 5-year old son came home from school last Monday in tears, scared that he may never see his dad again. What could have made him this distraught at pre-school you may wonder? Surely it must be one of the children in the playground?

Nope, it was a teacher, who showed them a photograph of WW2 soldiers boarding a train with tearful wives and children waving them goodbye. She then proceeded to tell them that some of the children never saw their daddies again as they were killed in war.

No matter how cruel the realities of this world, my young son does not have to have his childhood destroyed by them. There is plenty of time for him to learn that bad things happen, and school has no right to force those realities on him for the sake of celebrating and glorifying a day in history that Greece said 'no' to Italy in 1940.

It took a lot of convincing for my son to believe that we live in different times and daddy is not a soldier who will be called to war. I had to liken this history lesson to that of knights and Vikings to make him feel that some parts of the past are almost mythical, after all, I told him, you don't see knights with swords riding around on horses nowadays.

I was absolutely livid. This is not the first time he has come home with strong political or religious indoctrination and it appears it is not limited to his school; it is the general way of state schools on the island. You may recall my column last Easter (before my son was in pre-school) where I wrote of a friend's children being traumatised by their junior school showing the crucifixion of Christ in full, gory detail in a Larnaca village school – something they routinely do every Easter.

I want my children to attend Greek school – at least for the primary years – as we live here and I want them to be able to use both English and Greek equally well, for they may end up choosing to stay here in the future. My Greek certainly isn't good enough to work somewhere where Greek writing and typing is required, and I don't want them to have doors closed to them due to a language barrier like I have. I fully intend them to learn English alongside their Greek schooling too, but I was so tempted to pull him out of the Greek system then and there and never look back.

Both my children were baptised Greek Orthodox, but I want to raise them the way I want to raise them when it comes to religion and politics. Whilst it is all very well learning the history and religion of the island, there seems to be a very biased element to a lot of it, and it is way too meaty and heavy for children of their age.

For one, how can we expect the next generation to be ambassadors of change and peace on our divided island when they come home hating 'the Turks', without really knowing what a 'Turk' is other than being 'a bad man who stole my country'. Of course what they did to our island is abominable, but fostering a climate of hate in children who should not know that hate exists is really damaging.

And as for politics, it is certainly very Greece-centric, but that there is a whole other story, and one I am not touching with a barge pole!

First appeared in The Cyprus Weekly, 31/10/14