I’m thinking about the challenges faced by previous generations of parents. I’m thinking about parents that had to cope with the arrival of Rock ‘n’ Roll or the Sexual Revolution; parents that had to send their kids off to the factory or the draft. I’m thinking about these parents as I ...

“Daddy, where’s my heart?” It’s Isaac, my four year-old. I can feel his breath on my face. I’m snoozing on the sofa, you see, after having been up with both children since half five. They’re not excited about the new year or anything; this is standard waking-up time for them. ...

Across the calendar a line of Xs stand upon the dates that we have kissed goodbye. Each line an ending, a memory, and one step closer to hugging someone at the last possible minute. The year goes out with a bang, just as it arrived. It spends its last week ...

Good cheer and common threads of the holiday season.

Most of the conversations I have with my wife begin with the words ‘If we didn’t have kids…’ In fact, so many that I even tweeted to this effect, on 20 October via Twitter for BlackBerry, as you can see. If we didn’t have kids, on a nice winter’s evening we could ...

With the holidays in full swing and stores brimming with crazed parents scrambling to pickup the hottest toys, we thought we’d take a break from the Mall Madness and Plastic Pandemonium to propose a saner, greener, cheaper, and uniqu(er) alternative: a Digital Toy Box. Sure, mobile phones and tablets are ...

If you are after some last minute gift ideas for that geeky toddler in your life, you should check out Nerdy Baby. Nerdy Baby is what resulted when technical and corporate communications professional Tiffany Ard had a baby and suddenly realized how “stupid” the whole scenario of her working life ...

This morning I took a half day off work to see my eldest son in his first nativity. It was great, and very sweet. That’s all you need to know, really. I’d post a photo, but photography of any kind was banned because, y’know, every paedophile’s fantasy is a kid ...

Is this funny, disturbing, or a bit of both?

A week ago I was given the chance to review FlexiBath toys for children, via Whitestep. Having two children, and a bath, I said yes, and gave a double thumbs-up, although the person on the other end of the email (whom most of you will know, but I won’t name ...