Interesting Facts

Homeschooling is legal in the UK, but there is no register for home-schooled children. To the best of my knowledge, the following countries have banned homeschooling:- Albania Andorra    Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus    Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria    Croatia Cuba Cyprus El Salvador Georgia Germany Greece Greenland Guatemala Liechtenstein    Lithuania    Macedonia    Malta    Moldova    Montenegro    Netherlands    Serbia Sierra Leone Sweden Trinidad and Tobago Turkey

Monopoly is the world's best selling board game. (It is sold in 103 different countries, in 37 different languages. I wonder how many divorces it has caused.)

Finland has been rated the best place in the world to be a mum in the annual Mothers' Index compiled by Save the Children. (Sweden and Norway, were also at the top, while Germany was 9th, Australia 10th, France 16th and Ireland 20th, Britain came 23rd, behind most of her European neighbours, and the United States was placed 30th in the ranking of 176 countries. Mums in the poorest countries are at most risk, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the world’s toughest place to be a mother.) Save the Children