I caught myself again the other day, walking away with a suppressed smile on my face - trying to conceal my true emotions - as I marched off from another 'angry raised voice' encounter with my 9 and 8 year olds. I find myself doing this a lot more these days. I was once a... Continue Reading →
Note posted and ready for the TEAMS meeting! It doesn't always work and an incursion/invasion may still occur ... fingers crossed!!
Living Life on Purpose The last few months have been both the brightest and darkest of times for me. They have been both the most fulfilling and the most disorientating. It has been the most scared I have been and the bravest, all at the same time. They have been the most liberating and yet... Continue Reading →
Last weekend was world Autism Awareness Day and we marked it in this household. Actually, we celebrated it with another household, an amazing family that had invited us over to a celebration BBQ. Like us, they have an autistic child and wanted to make a celebration of the day. And what a celebration we had!... Continue Reading →
Those seemingly random questions that kids fire at us from time to time, serve as windows into their world. Their questions allow us a glimpse of what they might be processing in those little minds. They are nuggets of insight into what really matters to our kids at a point in time. As I lay... Continue Reading →
"Mummy doesn't do it like that!" Daddy hairdresser I am sure many dads have encountered those words of rebuke from their little ones at some point. It might be the way you cut the vegetables or fried the egg. It is never quite like mummy's. How dare you try to put your stamp on it!... Continue Reading →
I’m probably not going to win ‘dad of the year’ award for making a tidied up play area a condition for feeding them lunch. But I’m afraid desperate times call for desperate measures! No one told me raising kids could be such a messy, stress inducing untidy affair! It’s so much more worse for a... Continue Reading →
Daddy school has been in session since we relocated. Having left school and UK curriculum behind, we have a month before the kids start school here. Kids need routine, otherwise they drive you crazy with their restlessness and 'what do I do next daddy?!' So daddy school was introduced more for my own sanity than... Continue Reading →
Daily home life is about answering a million questions when you are dad to a 6 and 7 year old. They come programmed with inquisitive and enquiring minds that refuse to be satisfied with bland standard answers! You have to be super creative and on your game to come out tops! From ‘how do babies... Continue Reading →
I work a '9 to 5' job, but being a dad to 6 and 7 year olds is pretty much my full time job. It is by far, the scariest, most important and demanding, yet the most rewarding job of them all. It draws on everything that I have, and everything that I am. It... Continue Reading →
I’m truly amazed at how quickly my 6 & 7 year olds are seemingly growing up overnight! Friends in our age group with kids in high school and university (we came late to the parenting thing) tell me it goes in flash. ‘Enjoy the moments and the memories’ they say. It seems only yesterday we... Continue Reading →
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