After many years of trying to set personal goals in various ways and then failing to stick to them, I’m finally having some success. I can’t claim all the credit for this. To get from someone who has never been able to be consistent at anything, to someone who appears to be making the [...]
This is our busy time of the year for attending birthday parties and it is becoming exhausting as all the children get older. Having just run a gamut of parties for children of various ages we ended up coming up with a few things we would do differently next year, so I thought I would [...]
Just wait a little while. Eventually social search will reach the point where with a simple question you can ask the internet what facebook groups someone has been a member of. To the 14 year old who set up the kick a ginger group on Facebook that might not be scary, but let’s hope he [...]
In the last couple of years I’ve been thrown up on no less than 8 times. One in the face while playing, two on my lap while holding, and five down my back while comforting. I’m not talking about the small, frequent eruptions kids have, I’m talking about full body coatings with the entire stomach [...]
I’m always trying to cut through advertising, to work out if something is really going to be useful to me. I wanted to present an insight into how I do that based on a recent book release. I know a lot of parents think that the answer to their problems is in something that [...]
The LA Times recently ran a story about high profile parenting bloggers being wooed by food firms. The story goes that various corporations are offering free stuff to bloggers in return for positive feedback. In the Nestle case described it resulted in a backlash that apparently compromised the credibility of those bloggers. But is that [...]
Browse the web about fatherhood and you might come to the conclusion that if parenting were a profession men wouldn’t be promoted beyond middle management. The glass ceiling would kick in at the moment of birth. If it were a country it would be a dictatorship where men wouldn’t get a vote. It’s an absolute [...]
One thing you can easily do for your kids is to stay on the right side of their teachers. Being blacklisted by teachers won’t automaticaly affect the quality of your kids education, teachers are generally a professional bunch, but if you want to feel welcome at the school functions, be popular, get a good seat [...]
This weekend our daughter tumbled down some stairs, not a disaster but it was very dramatic. It wasn’t the first time and it certainly won’t be the last. She’s now sporting a nasty graze and a very blue lump on her head. It got me thinking about what that accident would make other parents think, [...]
If you want to imagine the world your children are heading into, imagine this: imagine living in a world where everything everybody says or has ever said to you or about you is available online for anyone to find. In that world there are no secrets. At any point in time I can [...]
I mentioned in a previous post what the bionic dad syndrome is but it turns out that it’s not gender specific. The “bionic mum” has suddenly taken up crazy craft projects to make things for our expanding family. She just spent an entire week and more than a little cash in learning how to make [...]