Dear Carol Smith,
I understand all the worries this problem caused on you because it's a delicate situation wich deserves very care.
You have to talk with your boyfriend and see if you really want to be together besides all the adversities, because it's very serious to stay with a person who already has a son, and understand that is a huge responsability, to raise a son who isn't yours. After that comes t
he most difficult part: the talk with your parents.
Your boyfriend and you have to show all the reasons why you should be together and tell them you're in love and no one should try to separate you. You also have to explain the situation of his son and all the hard work you will do to give the basics need to the child. You have to convince them you will only be happy together and nobody can change that.
However, there is the possibility that your parents don't accept your love and the sacrificies you are capable to do. In this case, you will have to decide if you want to be loyal to your parents or to your boyfriend. This choice only depends on you and I can do nothing to help you here, it's your decision, I know it's hard but this is the only way.
I hope my advice will help you and I'm sure you will take the best decision for your happiness.
Dr.Hope
Dear Dr. Hope,
I had been with my boyfriend for almost four years when my parents forced us to break up (I was only 15 at the time they found out). We have been apart for little over a year now but we have been talking a lot again and I love it.
The problem is that while we were apart he happened to find another girl and they became very close and he got her pregnant.
He has told her he doesn´t want to stay with her after the baby comes. He wants to pay child support and have joint custody. I am willing to be with him, despite the child, because I love him so much. The problem is that my parents would rather see me dead than with him.
Please help me. Your advice would be greatly appreciated.
Dear Doctor Hope,
I'm 14 yaers old and I have had a boyfriend.
It seems like everyone my age (and younger!) is progressing with their love life, and I haven't even had my first kiss!
I think I have a lot to offer, and I don't know why things have ended up this way. I'm afraid I'm going to get so left behind that no one will want me.
I like a few guys, but they hardly know I exist. It's especially hard for me because I am very shy. I'm really lonely and I'm getting desperate!
Am I destined to be dateless forever?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!
Thank you.
Mary Jones
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Dear Mary Jones, 
You are a child, relax take it easy. You are very uneasy. You have many time, let the tings happen with simplicity, don't think on that, every day. Live a day each time...
You mustn't afraid that happen some thing about boys. And if you are shy, forget that it, when you look at boy that you like so much, you can imagine that he is more shy than you are. You will feel better, and the shyness will finish once and for all!!!
You can believe, that when the right day cannes, you will think that it finish, and won't be forever. There are many teenagers like you...If you haven't even had your first kiss,...take it easy!You have time! Life is a child...There is time for all!
But, you don't need to "search" for boys, the certain boy will talk with you...
Dr. Hope
***Adriiana Mendes 10ºC Nº17***
Menu:
Caldo verde
Bacalhau à Brás
Cozido à portuguesa
Pão-de-ló
One of the most important cultural aspects of one country is the traditional food.
If you are always available to experiment new things, and if you never know what do to lunch or to dinner, we give you a suggestion: try a traditional Portuguese meal.
This soup is typical of north of
Ingredients:
250gr of cabbage cut in kale and potato broth | 700gr of potatoes | 1/2 pork sausage | 1 onion | 2lt of water | salt and olive oil.
Preparation:
Boil the potatoes, jointly with onion, pork sausage and salt in 2lt of water. When finish boiling, removing the pork sausage and pass the rest with mixer. Whenit starts to boil, add the cabbage and a little olive oil. Let it boil just a few minutes. Cut to pieces the pork sausage and put them in soup plate.
Cozido à Portuguesa
Ingredients:
Beef to boil | half a chicken | pork meat | smoked ham, pork sausage, flour pork sausage | bacon | fresh and smoked pork’s ears | 1 cabbage, 4 carrots, 6 potatoes and 4 turnips | salt and olive oil.
Preparation:
In a big pot, boil in water, all meat. The salty meat should be put to soak a few hours before boiling. Wash the cooking water with a little of olive oil and season as you please. Then of boiled take off the sausages, after the pork meat and just in the end, the beef. In this water of meats, put vegetables before mentioned. When boiled, take off pot of the stove, leaving the vegetables inside. To serve, cut meat, lay out in a plate with respective legumes. You can accompany with white rice, if you want.
Bacalhau à Brás
Ingredients:
400gr of Codfish | 3 table-spoon of olive-oil | 500gr of potatoes| 6 eggs | 3 onions | 1 garlic | garden-parsley | salt| pepper | oil | black olives.
Preparation:
First of all, you have to cut potatoes as straw and fry them. In the meantime, you can cut the garlic and mix it with the olive-oil. Take it the fire( cook) and join in the unwoven codfish, the potatoes and the eggs, that should be previously beaten and tempered with salt and pepper. When the eggs are boiled, you put the codfish in one dish and serve it still warm and decorated with black olives.
Other dessert that we suggest is the Sponge-Cake. This is a symbol of Margaride (Felgueiras). The first Portuguese going to the
Ingredients:
Eggs | Sugar (as weight in sugar as in eggs) | Selfraising flour (the weight in flour is ½ of the weight in eggs).
Preparation:
First of all, you have to separate the yolks of the whites. After this, you should add the sugar to the yolks and beat until you obtain a homogeneous mixture.
Afterwards, you must add up the flour to the mixture and beat it again. You have to beat the whites and join it to the compound. Finally you have to put the past in the tin, previously greased and sprinkled with flour, and take to the stove. Let cook until the cake obtains colour. When this happens, the sponge-cake is ready!
Did you like it? Well is better to try, it’s really good…
Enjoy your meal!
Cátia Monteiro e Celina Sampaio, 11ºD
