She’s 10 years old and she lives on chicken nuggets. Or she did. Until we decided that Rachel was now old enough now to be reasoned with. Since she was a toddler, Rachel has always been our fussiest eater. A vomiting bug when she was very young meant we fed her ‘easy’ foods – sandwiches, [...]
So, it’s Father’s Day. I’ve never really had a big attachment to silly card-shop celebrations like Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. That’s not to say that I disagree with the idea of celebrating love or the people in our lives, but not on some pre-ordained date, and certainly not because someone told me to. Let’s face [...]
Sometimes I feel utterly at odds with the world. Honestly. Like everybody’s in a different mental timezone to me half the time. Whether it’s in-laws being crushingly selfish or friends competing in the World Boring Championships to see who can stay indoors and have the least fun, life can sometimes be frustrating. I’m not judging [...]
Kids get bumps and bruises all the time, but I’ve never seen a child so prone to danger as our youngest. Dan can injure himself in the blink of an eye, in situations that no-one else would expect. If it’s true that only an idiot refuses to learn from his mistakes, our baby is in [...]
Picture the scene. I’m sitting in our living room with Jake and we’re talking about our new abortive show, Terra Nova. If you’re not familiar with Terra Nova, it’s a series about a group of people who escape a wasted, polluted Earth to the dawn of the planet where they can found a new civilisation. [...]
I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned it on this blog, but our eldest son is painfully shy. Well, he was painfully shy. At one point, my wife suspected he had selective mutism, a condition where the child behaves normally at home, but outside the house they barely communicate at all. In front of other [...]
One of the most difficult things we experience as parents is giving our children new freedoms and encouraging their independence. Especially when it concerns their safety. After weighing it up, we decided to allow our oldest two to walk part of the way home together. Without us. Yikes! Now, we don’t live too far from [...]
If you’re a longtime reader of this poorly updated blog, you’ll know that our lives went through some peculiar twists and turns in the last twelve months. 2011 was a turning point in our lives: in fitness, in focus and for the future. I start with fitness, because Lisa and I both dropped an enormous [...]
My wife and I are professional bloggers. It’s a fantastic job in that it allows us to work from home and the infinite flexibility that gives our family. The downside is that we work a lot more than you might imagine. This becomes more of a problem at the weekends, because of the subject matter [...]
My daughter – my eldest child – turns 10 years old in a few days. Of course, she’s precocious beyond her years. Ten going on teenager, really. But I think it’s fun when they’re this age to sit and reflect on their journey. After all, it’s been a decade. I remember when she was a [...]
