"Give me the child until he is 7 and I will give you the man".
I remember being very moved while watching the World In Action Documentary Seven Up which followed the lives of twenty children from different parts of the UK and from different social backgrounds.
When the picture of Omran Daqneesh reached us this week something about him struck me immediately. He reminded me of somebody and I couldn't for the life of me remember who and then going back through the Shark Fishing Archive I saw the picture of Neil from Michael Apted's 1964 Documentary 7 Up. Neil's story in particular had struck a chord with me with his battle with Mental Illness. Omran is only 5 and Neil was 7 in the above programme.
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