This blog is for parents who want to read something original and real about parenting, not the same old same old…lots of science, lots of humour and a load of good tips that really work! And an occasional rant.
‘Ooooh! You look GORGEOUS! Wow. That really suits you! You look really lovely in flowery stuff! So gorgeous!’ I said that to my 16-year-old son at the end of last… Trusting my kids has never come naturally to me. I have always had to work hard at it, it doesn’t seem to come automatically. The reason I know that that… It’s that time of year again. Off they go back to school and everything in our household ran smoothly up until the last minute when my daughter realised she couldn’t… I know helping kids is part of our job as parents and I know that children of course sometimes need our help. Very often though they actually don’t, but we… This week I travelled up to North Wales to see Grandma with my 13-year-old daughter, the first time we have done this trip just the two of us. At Oxford… I’ve had a weird virus thing this summer, it’s been going on for a few weeks now, and it’s hard to remember a time when I wasn’t being ill. It’s… ‘Bye!’ said my 13-yr-old daughter cheerily as she prepared to leave the house to go for a swim in the outdoor pool. She opened the front door and was almost… I may look like I’m social-media savvy because I blog and I have Facebook and Twitter accounts, but I was very late to all this technology really, and needed a… I was asked this question recently as I was in full flow pontificating on one of my favourite subjects, the balance and interaction between genetic inheritance and environment and the… So what kind of summer holiday do you want? I always think it’s important to know, and to make sure your children know too. I used to say to my… When it comes to our children, the things we worry about are endless. I’m sure the media doesn’t help. If I see one more article with the headline ‘Is your… Parenting fashions come and go, and in this mass-communication world parents can’t really avoid hearing about them. Some new idea is ‘proved to work’, it’s publicised all over the place… I read an article a while ago about how to talk to your teenage daughter about the pressures to get ‘bikini-ready’ for the summer so that, presumably, you can go… I have a 16-year-old son who has never developed the skill of owning a mobile phone. He had one once and there was always ‘something wrong with the battery’. He… Last week I took myself off for a wild and windy weekend’s camping. I’d reached the point where all those plates I was spinning in the air felt like they were… I was listening to a wonderful grandmother speaking on a radio phone-in this week, she was talking about how much she loved looking after her grandchildren. I think they let…
The Tyranny of Being Beautiful
Trusting My Kids
Letting Kids Own Their Problems
Helping Kids Too Much
Taking Parental Responsibility
Being Ill On Duty
Going Out In the Rain
New Communication Methods
What Are Children For?
The Summer Holiday You Want
Things We Worry About
Parenting Fashions
My Daughter Is ‘Bikini-Ready’
Mobile Phone Dependency
Looking After Our Own Needs
Ways Children Express Frustration