When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work.
I told her I worked at a college - that my job was to teach people how to draw.
She stared at me, incredulous, and said, 'You mean they forget?'
Teenagers who refuse to work, attend training or go to school are to be issued with on the spot fines under government proposals. Any who still fail to comply would then be taken to court where they could face further penalties.
The measures are designed to enforce a new law which will be outlined in this week's Queen's speech. It will say that all teenagers must remain in education, training or employment until they are 18.
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Quote for Today
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
"A mountain fell into the river, blocking the River Grijalva ... and created a wave ... that has flattened the town," Chiapas Gov. Juan Sabines told Mexican radio.