I didn’t think too much of it when I was contacted by Fiat’s PR people and told the company wanted to give me a Father’s Day present. I was even more underwhelmed when a little plastic box arrived in the mail containing a car-key shaped USB stick that featured Fiat branding. On a whim I
The past few weeks have been emotional. My first born is about to start school and it’s definitely turning out to be a bigger deal for my wife and I than it is for our daughter. As if to remind us just how rapidly children grow up, our youngest has started crawling and is already
Like many children across the UK, my daughter will be starting school any day now and so has left nursery ready to make the leap into reception class. She’d been going to this nursery for three years and so knew all the staff and had made a number of friends. Bizarrely, the experience
Over the past couple of months I’ve become troubled. You see our eldest daughter, Helen, has started declaring certain toys and objects to be “for boys” or “for girls” and this causes my wife and I some pain. As committed as I am to gender equality, I am a realist. Certain toys and activities will
Over the past couple of months I’ve been test-driving a number of children’s books published by the Random House Group. Outlined below are a few of the titles that have been well received in this Household. Dandylion by Lizzie Finlay – With our eldest daughter about to start school we’ve casually been reading her a
