Relationships

Just recently, I attended a course for parents of teenagers. We are not quite there yet but I can feel it looming in the distance. It was clear that whatever …

Preparing children for life as they get older is part of our jobs as parents, wouldn’t you agree? Our eleven year old left yesterday morning on his residential trip, we …

Cuddling is wonderful, cuddles mean love, mean security, means happy kids. Toddlers love them, and can get a bit carried away sometimes and start cuddling anything that’ll let them get …

So what’s this fatherhood lark all about then? We asked our guest blogger to tell us! Andrew Peck is a technical author with a house and all the usual paraphernalia of parenthood (including …

This last weekend was my biannual girlie weekend away….. it started a number of years ago as a weekend away for a friend’s significant birthday and we have been again …

Helping children navigate friendships can be quite a challenge. My daughter seems to get on with it quite well and although falls out with friends it just sorts its self …

How many times as parents do we hear that? And over so many different things. I am tempted to say answers on a postcard – I wouldn’t like to put a figure …

As we deal with these difficult times many of us are taking time for reflection. We are appreciating the chance to rethink the ways in which we do things especially …

Who do you want to tell your kids about the birds and the bees; don’t you just love the English way or talking around something like this! We have had …

Last weekend hubby and I were very fortunate to be able to tag a weekend away on to the end of a business trip somewhere slightly warmer and sunnier than …