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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScotland's wee ones are welcomed to the world with a cardboard box and a poem
Source: Mashable
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon gave expectant mothers a starter kit full of essential items for newborns, kicking off the "baby box" programme that's modelled on Finland's.
The boxes will be trialled for three months in Clackmannanshire and Orkney, and all Scottish newborns are scheduled to receive them by summer 2017.
The boxes contain items like clothes, nappies and books. The idea is to give all newborns an equal playing field.
Scotlands Baby Box is a strong signal of our determination that every child, regardless of their circumstances, should get the best start in life," Sturgeon said.
The box also includes a poem written by Scotland's Makar (National Poet), Jackie May. It's called "Welcome Wee One."
O ma darlin wee one
At last you are here in the wurld
And wi aa your wisdom
Your een bricht as the stars,
You've filled this hoose with licht,
Yer trusty wee haun, your globe o' a heid,
My cherished yin, my hert's ain!
O my darlin wee one
The hale wurld welcomes ye:
The mune glowes; the hearth wairms.
Let your life hae luck, health, charm,
Ye are my bonny blessed bairn,
My small miraculous gift.
I never kent luve like this.
The boxes will be trialled for three months in Clackmannanshire and Orkney, and all Scottish newborns are scheduled to receive them by summer 2017.
The boxes contain items like clothes, nappies and books. The idea is to give all newborns an equal playing field.
Scotlands Baby Box is a strong signal of our determination that every child, regardless of their circumstances, should get the best start in life," Sturgeon said.
The box also includes a poem written by Scotland's Makar (National Poet), Jackie May. It's called "Welcome Wee One."
O ma darlin wee one
At last you are here in the wurld
And wi aa your wisdom
Your een bricht as the stars,
You've filled this hoose with licht,
Yer trusty wee haun, your globe o' a heid,
My cherished yin, my hert's ain!
O my darlin wee one
The hale wurld welcomes ye:
The mune glowes; the hearth wairms.
Let your life hae luck, health, charm,
Ye are my bonny blessed bairn,
My small miraculous gift.
I never kent luve like this.
Read more: http://mashable.com/2017/01/02/scotland-baby-box-finland-start/?utm_cid=hp-r-5
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Scotland's wee ones are welcomed to the world with a cardboard box and a poem (Original Post)
demmiblue
Jan 2017
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malthaussen
(17,204 posts)1. "Free stuff" from birth.
Our country would never go for it.
But if there were a program to make them indebted from birth...
-- Mal
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)2. "Free stuff" from birth."
If the republicans think somebody is getting something for free they would spend a billion dollars to stop it.
Bucky
(54,027 posts)8. They'd privatize it, watch it cost twice as much, and then allow the profits to go to Halliburton
because freedom isn't free
Hugin
(33,163 posts)10. Meanwhile, in the USA.
People are in an uproar because somewhere, somehow, someone, just might be happy.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)4. In the U.S. their parents are indebted from (their child's) birth
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)6. Exactly.
Think of all that revenue they're missing by not indebting the child as well.
-- Mal
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)3. It's a wonderful idea.
It's needed everywhere.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)5. k and r. nt
What a beautiful idea.
MFM008
(19,816 posts)7. Terrific idea
They gave me booklets on my way out the door........
If it wasn't for my parents my kid would have been wearing my cloths out of the hospital.
Hugin
(33,163 posts)9. To be expected from a Nation who builds large monuments to poets.
Great.