Has it really been that long ago? My 9 year old daughter just referred to one of these as a ‘cartoon phone’. For her, they’ve only ever existed in the make believe world of cartoons. Now I feel really old!
Cartoon phones
God is nothing.
Prompted by them, I was answering questions about God from my 9 and 10 years olds as I drove them in the car to go shopping. My 10 year old summed up the conversation in his own words ‘God is nothing’. He was so right! God is NO Thing. Not an idea, concept, person, object... Continue Reading →
Daddy acting
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 →
Embracing Autism
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 →
Affirmation – an adoption story
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 →
Daddy hairdresser
"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 →
No tidy? No lunch!
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
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 →
Full-time daddy
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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