18 Jun The Thirty Things Guaranteed to Cause a Five-Year-Old Melt-Down
The Thirty-Nine Things Guaranteed to Cause a Four-Year-Old Meltdown a few days ago (and by the way, it’s sad how often I do this. Mostly to think “Hey, I was funny!”...
03 Dec Thirteen Things my Five-Year-Old Really Should have Thought Through
I'm told that children have to learn a certain amount by experience, and that you can't tell them everything. Somehow this is part of the learning experience, and is healthy and good. I find myself doubting this when I see my small boy...
19 Nov Naptime
A poem to celebrate 1000 page likes and 750,000 reads on The Cupid Touch. Naptime For five years every bedtime Has been a battle-ground - What once were cries now pleading, And pyjamas thrown around....
27 Sep Thirty-Nine Things Guaranteed to Cause a Four-Year-Old Meltdown
This is basically a companion-post to The 30 Things Most Likely to Give Me Parent Rage. I'm pretty lucky to have a naturally easy-going small...
08 Sep How Not to Travel With a Four-Year-Old
I used to love travelling. I’d feel lighter and better the moment the train pulled out of the station or the plane lifted off the tarmac, and I’d look forward to it with almost as much enthusiasm as the holiday. I guess...
08 Jan How I Made One Boy Behave Him-Elf this Christmas…
Since I'm reading at a fabulous monster-themed event this week in Cambrige, I thought I'd get into the right frame of mind (and hopefully get some readers into the right one, too ;-) So I'm posting a short story called Muckilly Gog. It's...
23 Oct A Week of Imaggling: Or 5 days of trying to get a four-year-old out of the door
In parenting, as in many things, there are good weeks and bad weeks. Most of the good weeks occur when at least 33% of the week is spent with someone else in charge, but I’m going to assume that’s not my fault,...
09 Sep My 5 Most Embarrassing Moments
Before you read on, I can promise you that this isn't one of those "I was soooooo drunk and it was soooooo funny, yah" posts. Not that I wasn't sometimes drunk. And it was sometimes funny, in my humble opinion. But my point...
14 Feb How I Made Paxman Blush (and coincidentally lost University Challenge…)
With Pete Stevens’ rather successful article letting the cat partially out of the bag, I concluded that the time was ripe to tell the story of one nineteen-year-old university contestant, a load of questions she couldn’t answer, and a daring outfit...
27 Jan 35 Things About Being a Parent that Scare the Thingy Out of Me
Up until I reproduced, I’d have described myself as fairly laid-back. Other people did too. Even on proper things like psychometric tests, and on inappropriate things like appraisals (apparently, it’s a weakness. Who knew?!). But without any real forewarning (except from my mother,...