When my children were little, we frequented playgrounds a lot. A great app was available, where if one spotted something broken in a playground, you could simply snap a photo, send it to the local council and they would solve it (usually). For someone like me, who has a kindred spirit relationship with exel [...]
11 feels significant. I don't exactly know why given just last year was your big first decade, a milestone that is well recognised by every parent of every ten year old. Perhaps 11 feels more significant because it may be the start of the lasts of many things. Perhaps it's the last year that [...]
One of the greatest moments of parenthood is experiencing so many of your child's 'firsts' that amaze you beyond anything. You get to delight in the utmost joy that only a parent can, thinking your child is incredible when they perform an action that as adults we take forgranted. Like the first time your [...]
Twelve. It’s a life time. It’s closer to adulthood than it is to childhood. It’s your time for pushing and pulling……moulding your world with big ideas of what is wrong and right, what is just or unfair, what should be or could be. Recently I learned a new word – indefatigable, which means “persistently [...]
