Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
…and 20 moments that will make you forget them! Unlike five years ago, we’re now at the stage in our grown-up lives where more and more of our friends from school/university are starting to settle down and have families. As a result, my Facebook feed is quite often filled with expectant or new parents fretting…
With both Robert and Freddie’s birthdays coming up in the next couple of months, our minds have turned to the sticky subject of birthday parties. Obviously with Freddie it’s a first birthday, so his opinion on how it’s spent is not really top of our priorities – so long as he gets food and a…
As a parent who happens to work in marketing, I often find myself pondering over the way my children are marketed to/at, and torn by what I see. As I quite regularly discuss, both our children’s TV habits are almost entirely limited to Cbeebies (or occasionally the “grown-up” BBC channels, for documentaries and the like)…
As I sit here on the eve of both Robert and Freddie going in to whole-day care/education, I thought it would be a good time to post the follow-up to my post “A Children’s Book for Ever Life Lesson“. After I published the last post, lots of you were kind enough to suggest books which…
‘I’m still funny. I’m still creative. I’m still kind of hip. I’m still sane.’ This is the mantra I have been repeating to myself for the past three years. The past three years have seemed long and short at the same time. The day they were born was the best and most stressful day of…
With just over a week to go until Sara returns to work (albeit part time), the day is also approaching when we’ll have to leave Freddie at nursery for the first time. Not only that, but it’ll also be the first time Robert has gone full-time at pre-school – so nerves are definitely running high…
Before I start this post, I want to make one thing very clear: I’m writing this because I love the subject matter, not because anybody has asked me to write it, or even suggested it. As most of you will know, if ever I write posts on subjects I have been ‘incentivised’ to cover, I…
Whilst reading Robert his bedtime stories tonight, I chanced across a new book which we’d not read before. As Sara often gets books out from our local library, we try to mix the newly-lent books in with our more regular favourites – if for no other reason than to avoid the tedium! Tonight’s book was…
Back in June 2011, just one week before Freddie was born, I wrote a post about the curious subject of “VBAC” – aka “Vaginal Birth After Caesarian. If you didn’t read it back then, you might like to quickly now before I go on, as things have taken an interesting turn this week: Fatherhood²: “VBAC…
This weekend just gone, Sara and I took the boys in to some very treacherous woods and pushed one of them down a hill, whilst balancing the other precariously at the top of a muddy ledge. Before you call Childline, I should probably explain – it’s alright, because loads of other parents were doing the…