April 2017 | Nómadas Solidarios

Has Marine Le Pen’s traumatic past made her tough or terrified?

Marine Le Pen, 48, is said to be charming, funny and charismatic. She loves cats and karaoke and on May 7 she could be the next President of France. But behind the charm lies a peculiar past that has ¹shaped her vision of the world.

Marine is the daughter of ultra-right ²firebrand Jean-Marie Le Pen, who led France’s National Front from 1972 until 2015, when he referred to the holocaust as a “detail of history” and Marine expelled him from the party.

She spent her early years in a Paris apartment with her three sisters and a ³nanny while her father Jean-Marie and rather beautiful mother Pierette Lalanne held parties and political meetings in the apartment below. Christmas was sometimes spent with nanny too – her parents loved to travel and ⁴were not always back in time.

Alike: the Goya-winning short film that depicts how we crush creativity

Alike is a short film by Daniel Martínez Lara and Rafa Cano Méndez that illustrates how we turn our children from ¹bundles of creative energy ²brimming with ideas into duplicates of ourselves with no initiative in the belief that we are educating them.

In 2016, it won a Goya for best-animated film after being shown at film festivals around the world and now the directors have decided to ³upload the entire film onto internet so that more people can see it. So far it has had more than 5 million views.

Three therapists talk confidence in kids

When I was small, my mother put me in a large ¹pram, which she parked at the end of the garden so she couldn’t hear me. We lived on a farm on the east coast of Scotland where the weather was bad. But as long as it wasn’t pouring with rain, that’s where I stayed for a couple of hours every day.

When I reached the age of five, my mother waved from the back door of our house as my sister and I joined the other farm children for the two-mile walk across the fields to school. The journeys were ²challenging. There was Flika, the Shetland pony with sharp teeth, Bruno the paranoid Labrador and Willy and Ian, a couple of boys who had cut a dog’s head off with an ³axe and loved to push us into the ⁴nettles that grew along the sides of the path.

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