Being an MP is the sort of job all working class parents want for their children - clean, indoor and no heavy lifting.

Parents and teachers have brought children back. We've been told this is the most ideal Halloween event -- a high-class, sophisticated haunted house in beautiful, elaborate surroundings. We don't have to put blood anywhere, because the house and the stories are interesting enough.

Children helping children is one of the most heartening aspects of the enormous relief effort.

We have to be absolutely vigilant that those children aren't fleeing those schools,

Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.

If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.