My son, Christian, woke up at around 6:15 on Sunday morning (there’s no lying in when you have an early riser in the house- and that was actually late for him!) I went and jumped into bed with him like I sometimes do in the mornings, and we got chatting about the bike park, tractors, […]

Hairdressing salons are places where some pretty deep conversations can take place. Last week, whilst there, my hairdresser and I fell into conversation about rising rate of chronic and terminal illnesses among the people we know and how their message seems to always be the same- live life now, don’t wait. She relayed the story […]

Over the past few weeks, our community has been rocked by various deeply tragic incidents in which lives, too young, have been taken. As a parent, it’s at times like these that I reflect on the fragility of life and the importance of telling our children every single day that we love them. When they […]

Anger is a beautifully complex emotion. It’s an emotion we all experience. It’s what I call the onion emotion because anger is seldom just anger. Beneath it lies layers which are easily ignored. Anger has many guises. In order to be able to accurately assess it, it requires us as parents to pause and take […]

The sometimes shocking reality yet beauty of truth is often uttered straight from the lips of our children. They say it how it is and frequently force us to face realities we’d sometimes rather not know exist. When Christian was about three years old, I remember the giggle I had one night when, whilst tucking […]