Archive for February, 2009

Under the weather?

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Saturday was my birthday and I didn't do much in the way of celebrations, in fact I didn't really feel in a celebratory mood.  For some reason I woke up with the image of  a blue sky, my children laughing and splashing in a clear blue sea, a white sandy ...

Modern parenting is a bad excuse.

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

News story doing the rounds today about how parents' ambitions in today's society are damaging their children's well being - see http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/feb/02/children-wellbeing-success for example.  Now, this is not the first time that this sort of discussion has come up and I think it is good that it is debated but ...