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Delete Photos Of Your Kids Online Before They Become ‘Landmines’, Warns Author

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A parenting author and columnist has urged other parents to delete all the photos they’ve shared of their kids online – warning that these pictures are like “landmines” waiting to go off as children grow up.

Plenty of parents share photos, videos and details of their children’s lives online – usually on social media or in private groups – a phenomenon known as ‘sharenting’.

But this increasingly comes at a cost. Other children and teens can easily find these photos online and then turn them into cruel memes, deepfake videos (some of which can be pornographic) or share them around school to cause embarrassment.

Lorraine Candy, a journalist and author of ‘Mum, What’s Wrong with You?’: 101 Things Only Mothers of Teenage Girls Know, shared: “I think we need to go back and delete all the pictures we have ever shared – even in private Facebook groups or on private WhatsApp channels – of our children when they were younger.”

Explaining the reasoning for this statement, she said when kids reach their tween and teen years, those photos on social media are “landmines” for them and it can be “really upsetting” that other people can see them and they might get shared around.

“Imagine your worst teenage bully at school, imagine your worst friendship group where you feel very insecure and vulnerable, imagine them having access to pictures of you in a bath when you were a baby, to posts about you having a poo,” she said in an Instagram reel.

The author continued: “I know you can say it’s in a private group, it won’t get shared. [But] It does get screenshot, it does get shared. Other children have access to their parents’ private groups.”

Candy, who has four children, noted it’s “really important to a developing mind, as a teenager, that they don’t have these little bombs going off in the background emotionally as they’re developing their identity and their autonomy and their privacy”.

Plenty of people resonated with the post. “I mentor teenagers and would always recommend that parents do this. Online photos can cause all sorts of issues further down the line,” said one commenter.

“I’ve thought about this a lot over the years. I’ll have the conversation with my 12-year-old son this weekend and see how he feels about it. It’ll be so difficult to erase them because my Instagram is like a memory book of his childhood!” added another parent.

One mum recalled how she received a “barrage of requests” from her daughter’s friends to connect with her on Instagram (back when her daughter was 13).

“When I asked my daughter she said they were only sending these requests to access pics of her when she was younger – for jokes, basically. It was a real moment of enlightenment for me,” she added.

It’s not just bullying and deepfake creation that can be an issue as a result of sharenting. Images – whether real or fake – can also be used to intimidate or blackmail teenagers, as well as to commit identity theft and fraud.

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David Haye Addresses Controversial Adam Thomas Spat After Leaving I’m A Celebrity

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I’m A Celebrity star David Haye has spoken out after the conflict between himself and Adam Thomas escalated during the most recent episode of the reality show.

Last week, many viewers were unhappy with the way that David had spoken to Adam after the Emmerdale star explained he was feeling too unwell to put himself forward for a Bushtucker Trial, after experiencing a flare up of his psoriatic arthritis.

In Monday night’s instalment, the spat grew even further, with Adam being moved to tears by digs from David, who insisted he was only playing with the soap actor.

Later in the episode, members of the camp each had to select one person to save from elimination.

Because no one selected David, he became the second celebrity to leave the show, choosing Gemma Collins to go with him.

On his way out, he and Adam had something of a reconciliation, with the retired boxer assuring him: “Sorry, it was all banter. It’s all good.”

Speaking to Ant and Dec later in the show, the former heavyweight champion claimed: “Me and Adam had a little bit of back and forth. I was bantering, but the banter, he didn’t really like the banter.

“He kind of got to the limit of the banter he was willing to receive and started snapping and that.”

Adam Thomas and David Haye in I'm A Celebrity: South Africa before their fall-out
Adam Thomas and David Haye in I’m A Celebrity: South Africa before their fall-out

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Asked whether he felt he’d pushed things “too far” with Adam, David conceded: “Probably. I’m an extremist, and I can’t help myself. But it’s all love. I love him really. He’s a cool guy. It’s all perfect now.”

Following his exit, David was quoted by numerous outlets as saying: “[There’s] no bad blood from my side.”

He added: “When a grown man tells me that a fun TV show – where we’re being paid handsomely every single day – is the hardest thing he’s ever been through, it’s just not a frequency I recognise.

“I was actually on my best behaviour there, honestly. I’ve spoken to Adam, I’ve said my piece and some of what’s still to air will speak for itself, I’ll leave it there.”

Earlier this week, Adam claimed that he’d received a private apology from David over how the athlete treated him on the show.

“He broke me in there, he pushed me to my limits, and I’ve told David this and he’s apologised and that’s that!” he insisted. “I’ve moved on now, am not one to hold a grudge.”

Meanwhile, even Ant and Dec have suggested that David’s conduct “crossed the line” while he was still on the show.

I’m A Celebrity: South Africa continues on Tuesday night at 9pm on ITV.

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‘Body Doubling’ Could Be The Secret To Helping Kids With ADHD Focus Better

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Body doubling – where a person with ADHD works nearby or alongside another person to keep them focused on the task at hand – isn’t a new technique, but ADHD experts are increasingly recommending it as a strategy to help support task completion.

While plenty of adults already use it to plough through their daily workload, parents are also trying it to support their kids with homework or revision – especially the more boring stuff that’s hard to make a start on.

I first came across the concept when psychotherapist Jessica VanderWier, of Nurtured First Parenting, shared some of the parenting strategies she would try in her own home if she had a child with ADHD.

In addition to being structured with how much (and what type of) screen time kids encounter, and offering lots of opportunities for movement, she noted that she would also try “body doubling” when kids feel stuck and unable to start a task.

“Body doubling is when you are present and doing something in the same space that your child needs to get a task done. Example: they’re doing homework and you’re beside them folding laundry,” she explained on Instagram.

“Your presence acts as an anchor and helps decrease procrastination and increase motivation to get something done.”

Why body doubling works

Dr Chris Abbott, chief medical officer at Care ADHD, tells HuffPost UK that while there’s been limited research into body doubling, many clinicians and families report that it can meaningfully help children with ADHD with focus and task completion.

“It’s best understood as a low-risk, practical strategy rather than a standalone treatment, and tends to work particularly well for tasks that are hard to start or sustain,” he adds.

The strategy builds on psychological principles such as accountability and social facilitation.

“Children often find it easier to stay on task when someone else is present. It also helps ‘externalise’ focus, reducing the burden on executive functions like task initiation and self-regulation, which are commonly affected by ADHD,” says Dr Abbott.

Dr Kripalani, lead psychiatrist at The ADHD Centre, says body doubling is
“an incredibly effective tool”.

“Since the ADHD brain often struggles to ‘self-start’ or maintain focus on tasks that aren’t naturally stimulating, having another person present serves as a gentle physical anchor,” he explains.

Teaching kids this tool from a young age can be “transformative” because it prevents a child from internalising a “failure identity”, adds Dr Kripalani.

“Instead of feeling isolated in their struggle, the child experiences a daunting task as a shared journey, which lowers the emotional barrier to entry and helps them find their focus.”

It can also help buffer against rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD), which can cause extremely intense negative feelings and severe emotional pain, and is often associated with ADHD.

“Many children experience a form of paralysis born from the fear of being criticised or doing something wrong,” says the psychiatrist.

“A supportive, non-judgmental body double provides a safety net that lowers cortisol levels and keeps the prefrontal cortex ‘online’ for learning.”

Other expert-backed tips for revision and focus

  • Break revision into short, timed blocks of 10-25 minutes with regular breaks.

  • Offer ‘micro rewards’ – rather than waiting for a big reward at the end of the week, give a child a small dopamine hit, like five minutes of a favourite activity for every 20 minutes of work, to keep the momentum going.

  • Use body doubling, in person or via video, for harder or less engaging subjects.

  • Be specific about goals – you could say ‘complete five questions’ rather than ‘revise maths’.

  • Alternate subjects or task types to maintain interest and avoid fatigue.

  • Build in movement breaks (physical activity) to help reset attention.

  • Noise-cancelling headphones and fidget tools can help channel restlessness.

  • Reduce distractions e.g. have a clear workspace and limit devices unless they’re needed for studying.

  • Use active techniques such as practice questions, flashcards and teaching someone else rather than passive reading. Gamifying the more tedious aspects of study with ‘beat the clock’ challenges or colourful mind maps can help the info “stick”.

  • Create a consistent routine, but keep it flexible enough to avoid overwhelm.

  • Prioritise sleep, nutrition, and downtime – these have a direct impact on attention and memory.

  • Praise their efforts – by saying, “I love how you stayed at your desk even when that question was tricky,” rather than just “you’re smart,” we build resilience against rejection sensitivity by valuing effort over perfection.
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Torte Peasana: This Italian Cake Is The Best Way To Use Up Old Bread

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I’ve recently got back into making sourdough, but it’s brought about a problem I could never have expected: by day five, I sometimes have rock-hard leftovers.

I can’t bring myself to throw it away. But now I’m at week four, I’ve grown a little tired of bread-and-butter puddings.

So, when I found a recipe for torte peasana – an Italian dish that’s sometimes called “village cake,” “black cake,” or “milk cake” – I figured I’d give the baked custard a go.

Spoiler alert: it’s delicious.

Some old sourdough

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Some old sourdough

What is torte paesana?

It’s a cake from the Lombardy region of Italy. There’s no one set recipe, but usually, it uses up stale bread in a thin custard made with sugar, cocoa, eggs, and milk.

Grappa-soaked raisins sometimes make an appearance (I soaked mine in orange juice, which is probably sinful but tasted delicious). Nuts, like almonds or pine nuts, are common, and crushed Amaretti biscuits occasionally feature, too.

But I would be doing the dish a disservice if I pretended its scope was that limited. You can include a variety of fresh or dried fruit (I reckon pears, dried cranberries, or figs would be delicious) if you want.

You don’t have to soak dried fruit in anything, but if you choose to, a variety of wines and spirits will do, as will some fruit juices.

You can add orange zest to the mix if you like. I used old sourdough, but you don’t have to: stale baguettes or even old ciabatta would be great too.

Cocoa can be substituted for chocolate, and vice versa. Like bubble and squeak, torte paesana has all the hallmarks of a brilliant leftover recipe: it’s endlessly adaptable, next to impossible to mess up, and almost inevitably delicious.

Torte Paesana

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Torte Paesana

How did it taste?

It’s impressively rich and deliciously squidgy; a bit like bread and butter pudding or French toast, but more grown-up and with a greater mixture of crunchy and chewy textures.

It’s addictive.

How do you make torte peasana?

Ingredients:

The recipe I ended up making for my tiny torte peasana was:

  • 125g old bread,
  • 30g raisins (other dried fruit will do),
  • 30g flaked almonds (whole almonds or other nuts will be great too),
  • 10ml orange juice (grappa, wine, coffee, or other drinks will do),
  • 25g cocoa,
  • 250ml full-fat milk,
  • 1 egg,
  • 3 tablespoons granulated sugar.

But this was only because I had a tiny amount of bread (125g) left, and it left me with a smaller, thinner tart.

Double what I have here for a bigger, better cake.

That would look like:

  • 250g bread,
  • 60g raisins or other dried fruit,
  • 60 nuts,
  • 15ml orange juice, grappa, coffee, or other soaking liquid,
  • 50g cocoa,
  • 2 eggs,
  • 6 tablespoons granulated sugar,
  • 500ml full-fat milk.

Method:

1) Heat up the milk. I was dealing with very old, tough sourdough. If your bread is softer, you may be able to cover it in cold milk and sit it, weighed down, on the counter for an hour or so, but I couldn’t do that. I brought the milk to just below boiling.

2) While this is cooking, place a tablespoon of e.g. grappa over the dried fruit. This can be done in a bowl. And if you don’t have anything “special” to soak them in, boiling water plumps them nicely; hot coffee would be delicious.

3) Pour the hot, but not boiling, milk over finely-torn bread and place a weight (I used a bowl full of ceramic beads) on top to ensure it’s submerged. Let it sit for about half an hour. Now would be a good time to add fruit zest if you want to include some.

4) Preheat the oven to 170°C ten minutes before the bread’s finished soaking. Line a tart tin (I used a pie tin, which worked fine despite my meagre half-serving) or a pie tin, though ideally not one with a removable base, as this can leak. If you are using biscuits, whizz them into a powder now.

5) Mash the bread. I used the end of a wooden rolling pin, but a wooden spoon would probably have worked. For especially stubborn bread, use a stick blender. Make sure the milk is not still hot; tepid is fine, but hot milk will cook the egg early.

6) Add the cocoa, eggs, and sugar. If you’ve blended or smashed up some biscuits, add them now too. Stir or mash them together. Don’t worry too much about how the batter looks: so long as there are no massive lumps of bread and nothing’s curdled, it’ll work.

7) Add the nuts and soaked raisins and stir. Then, pour the mix into the lined container and bake. For my mini-tart, it took 20 minutes. For the bigger one, it should be about 35-40 minutes. Check to see if the tart is firm.

8) Let it cool. Torte paesana gets better with age (allegedly: I didn’t wait long enough to check), so leave it overnight in the fridge if you can bear it. Serve with cream or creme fraiche, or (as I used) mascarpone, if you like.

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Keir Starmer Fights For Survival In Make-Or-Break Commons Showdown

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Keir Starmer will battle to save his job as he faces MPs amid calls for him to resign over the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal.

A Labour peer is among those demanding the prime minister quit after it was revealed the shamed former US ambassador failed security vetting before taking up the plumb diplomatic role.

Starmer said he was “furious” that he was not told that Olly Robbins, the top civil servant in the Foreign Office, had ultimately cleared Mandelson to carry out the job.

The PM only found out last Tuesday – and Robbins was sacked on Thursday night.

Starmer has been accused of lying to parliament and the public for previously stating that all of the appropriate vetting processes had been followed before Mandelson was appointed.

He will make a Commons statement on Monday before facing questions from MPs about what he knew and when.

Supporters of Olly Robbins have insisted he was legally precluded from telling the PM that Mandelson had failed the security vetting, but that has been denied by Downing Street.

“No law stops civil servants sensibly flagging UK Security Vetting recommendations, while rightly protecting detailed sensitive vetting information, to allow Ministers to make judgements on appointments or on explaining matters to Parliament,” the government said.

Scottish secretary Douglas Alexander told Sky News: “There are rightfully and reasonably important questions that need to be answered today. Keir Starmer’s going to set out all the facts. The right place for those questions to be answered are at the despatch box in the House of Commons.

“But we saw the leader of the opposition, as recently as Friday, claiming that the prime minister lied.

“That central contention that he wilfully and intentionally misled parliament and the public now relies, given what has emerged since then, relies on what would need to be a growing conspiracy, not just of every minister involved in this process, but of a growing list of civil servants.

“These judgments matter, and in that sense people need to reach a judgment in the round. The right place to do that’s in the House of Commons this afternoon, and the prime minister will set out his case.”

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Olivia Colman’s Heartstopper Character Recast In New Spin-Off Film

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Olivia Colman’s character in Heartstopper will be played by a different actor in the show’s upcoming film.

The Oscar winner received widespread praise for her portrayal of Nick’s mum, Sarah Nelson, in the first two seasons of the Netflix teen drama.

However, in its third iteration, Olivia was unable to appear, with Hayley Atwell instead appearing as Nick’s aunt, who served a maternal role in his life for these episodes.

Over the weekend, it was confirmed that in the forthcoming movie Heartstopper Forever, the character of Sarah has been completely recast due to Olivia’s unavailability.

In her absence, the role will now be played by Line Of Duty and Motherland star Anna Maxwell Martin.

Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman told Netflix’s Tudum: “When beginning to work on the Heartstopper Forever screenplay, I knew how important it was that Sarah, Nick’s mum, appeared in the story.

“Since season one, we have seen how close Nick is with his mum; she’s one of the few people he can turn to in moments of crisis. While in season three, we were able to tweak the story to avoid any appearance of Sarah, it felt nonsensical for her to be absent from this final chapter, given some of the emotional struggles Nick faces.”

They continued: “Sadly, Olivia Colman was not able to join us for the film, so we made the very difficult decision to recast the role, rather than exclude the character. We are deeply grateful for Olivia’s beautiful performance as Sarah in seasons one and two of Heartstopper, through such iconic moments as Nick coming out as bisexual, and we know that her performance will live on in the hearts of every Heartstopper fan.

“We are overjoyed to welcome the incredible Anna Maxwell Martin into the role of Sarah for Heartstopper Forever. Anna perfectly embodies Sarah’s gentle, down-to-earth energy, and it was magical to witness her scenes with Kit Connor during the film shoot. I can’t wait for Heartstopper fans to experience her interpretation of Sarah Nelson.”

Joe Locke and Kit Connor share a kiss as Charlie and Nick in Heartstopper
Joe Locke and Kit Connor share a kiss as Charlie and Nick in Heartstopper

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Heartstopper Forever will premiere on Netflix later this year, and serve as the final outing for Nick and Charlie, played by Kit Connor and Joe Locke.

As well as the usual returning cast members, including Yasmin Finney and Will Gao, it’s been confirmed that Bafta winner Derek Jacobi will also be playing a new character in the film.

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Trump Once Again Threatened War Crimes On The Eve Of Iran Peace Talks — And His Lackey Has An Interesting Interpretation

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White House Energy Secretary Chris Wright called President Donald Trump a “creative negotiator” when asked about his threats to “knock out every single” power plant and bridge in Iran.

As peace talks between the United States and Iran appear to be at a stalemate amid a tenuous ceasefire agreement and continued jockeying over control of the Strait of Hormuz, the president demanded Iran accept America’s terms or face his full wrath in a Sunday morning Truth Social post.

“NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” Trump declared, calling the US’s diplomatic offer “very fair and reasonable.”

Asked if the president’s intimidation tactics could “complicate” negotiations with Iran during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday” just hours later, Wright said he had full confidence in Trump.

“The president is using every way he can to get leverage over the regime and bring this conflict to an end,” he told host Shannon Bream. “He’s a creative negotiator, he uses pressure in different ways.”

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FOX NEWS SUNDAY: When the president talks about blowing up every power plant and bridge, how does complicate things?

CHRIS WRIGHT: He’s a creative negotiator pic.twitter.com/XsmrnxQvrZ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 19, 2026

“He uses uncertainty in different ways and I think as you’ve seen in the last 16 months, generally it leads to good results,” the cabinet member went on. “I don’t think we’ll see any surprises here.”

Wright envisioned reaching a “nice end to this conflict,” which he said would rescue Iran’s regional neighbors from “constant terror” and also guarantee a free “flow of goods” through the Strait of Hormuz.

“Imagine a nuclear armed Iran, not far away from that reality,” he said. “This is going to put an end to it.”

Wright stuck by his support for Trump’s strategy in a separate Sunday interview on CNN, where host Jake Tapper asked the secretary if he was worried strikes on civilian infrastructure could “constitute a war crime.”

“The president is looking for maximum leverage,” he said, later adding, “No, I’m not worried about that.”

Earlier this month, Trump triggered international panic with a near-identical ultimatum, telling Iran to “open the fuckin’ Strait” of Hormuz within two days or find themselves “living in hell” via Truth Social.

After upping the ante with a post warning “a whole civilization will die tonight” just hours before his 8pm April 7 deadline, a two-week ceasefire was announced.

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