“Get a move on!” Road safety and parental rudeness
I pulled to a stop at a red traffic light the other day. Two teachers began ushering a long line of primary school kids across the road right in front of my car bonnet. All the children wore those bright-yellow high-visibility jackets and were around six and seven years old. The teachers were so close […]
When your parenting instincts suck
It’s been 65 years since Dr Spock’s Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care was first published. This hugely influential book opens with the lines “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.†How many parents are there out there like me, who knew that this advice wouldn’t work for them because […]
Your child isn’t TRYING to drive you to distraction – think again…
Natural logic forbids belief in the evolution of a species with the characteristic of driving its parents to distraction by the millions. Jean Liedloff, American writer and psychotherapist (1926 – 2011) Why do we keep up the pretence that children are either sweetness and light or that they are specifically designed to drive us to […]
