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How to raise a child

LIFE HACK #06

Everyone is full of advice for expectant parents right up until to the moment the little bundle of joy actually arrives, at which point they're pretty much left on their own So what can history teach us about caring for a baby?

For the Romans, the heat was initially off as – due to the high infant mortality rate – Roman children weren't recognised

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