If you wish to know the significance of this photograph, you may want to read this short post from yesterday. Put very succinctly, however, today marks one whole week of Helen riding a bike without stabilisers! If you’ll excuse me, I’m also going to keep this post very short. If you’re reading it on Sunday,
The kids have been hitting a lot of milestones recently. Helen has started Year Two at primary school and been teaching her mother and father maths concepts they’d never heard of, Toddler Adams has given up wearing nappies and is expressing an interest in learning to read. The biggest milestone, however, must surely be the
Last week I published a blog post about the birth of Helen, my eldest daughter. I promised there would be a follow up detailing the birth of Toddler Adams and here it is. I confess that Part One was a lengthy affair. You’ll be relieved to hear this story is much shorter because the birth
This parenting thing; it gets a bit tough at times doesn’t it? I don’t mind admitting that since the end of the summer holidays, times have been a little demanding. Don’t get me wrong. Nothing disastrous has happened. I simply think that Toddler Adams has had a major developmental spurt. Quite understandably, she needs
I don’t know about you, but when I hit my early thirties I realised, possibly with a little reluctance, that my parents often knew best. It wasn’t universal; there were still things they got horrendously wrong but, by and large, much of the advice they’d given me when younger had proved to be correct. As
