Earlier this week Mrs Adams, Toddler Adams and I spent a day in Brighton where I got this picture of a breaking wave. Our day trip was an unexpected and spontaneous thing. A close relative of my wife’s had been hospitalized. Quite understandably, she wanted to get out the house and do something, anything, to
Shared parental leave has been in place since April 2015 and new research from the charity Working Families has found that only .5% to 2% of eligible fathers have thus far made use of it. This will come of little surprise to anyone familiar with the policy. Such low take-up figures prove beyond doubt that
Over the past few months I have come to appreciate the value of a really good children’s story book. When I say good, I mean classic children’s stories written by authors such as Enid Blyton. Helen is inching towards her seventh birthday and her taste in bedtime reading is becoming increasingly varied and complex. She’s
I want to ask a random question of you guys. What is the ideal adult to child ratio if you wish to; a) have a relaxing time in adult company while b) letting your children play and mingle with friends? The magic figure I’ve heard is two adults to four children. Aside from the
This year we spent Christmas with family up in Scotland. Our flight home on Tuesday wasn’t until the afternoon and the children were hyper-excited, aided by the fact they’d been fed huge amounts of sweets over the festive period. Realising they were steadily tearing granny’s house apart, we took them to the nearby Palacerigg Country
