Finding the Humour in Parenting
Why is Humour in Parenting not Taken Seriously? Laughter is a great tool for getting us through the difficult times but we are rarely advised to find the humour in parenting. When we become mothers we...
View ArticleMy Kids Turned Out OK!
Who’d have thought it? My kids turned out OK in the end. My first son, after a shaky start, turned out not to be a deranged psychopath after all. He’s a lovely caring young man, has lots of friends and...
View ArticleBody Language Speaks Louder than Words
Words have only been around for about 200,000 years, which may sound like a long time but on the clock of human evolution they only appeared at about two minutes to twelve. Before then all we used was...
View ArticleKids Don’t Need Boundaries, Parents Do
I hear people say ‘Kids need boundaries’ but I think that’s the wrong way round. Kids don’t need boundaries, parents do. Parents just need to know where their boundaries are, and express them clearly...
View ArticleParental Omnipotence
Over twenty years of parenting I have, little by little, been disabused of the belief in parental omnipotence; I have learned that behaviour, and how children turn out, is the result of a wonderful...
View ArticleI Have Never Called My Daughter Beautiful
No, you heard that right. I have never called my daughter beautiful as far as I remember; not as a policy, but just because I am from a working-class family, and it’s not a word we ever used about...
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