I write to you from underneath five suitcases, five carry-ons, two baby seats and that lifetime supply of diapers I told you about in one of my first columns.
Our flight to Hong Kong is going to be 1...
Sometimes opportunities arise which you hadn’t really considered before. Maybe it’s a job or a new experience; when you have a family you have to consider the impact not only on you and your spouse, b...
Mama”, “dada”, “ineluctable”. These are some possible first words any parent is waiting with bated breath to hear their child speak.
OK, maybe not all of them but the excitement around what your chil...
You never really consider how powerful our colour association is in the Western world until you dress your daughter in blue or green to leave the house.
Blue is boy and pink is girl. The look of surpr...
In honour of the Rio Olympics, where gladly, it came off without any international incidents (beside Mr Lochte’s interesting tales to the police), I want to share a proposed list of events at the Inau...
Inevitably, there comes a time when you want to leave the house with your newborn(s). After a few weeks of shielding them from all the sun, wind and rain, the babies must make their outdoor debut and ...
I always seem to get far more praise than my wife does when we are taking our babies out in public.
People seem to respond to my very limited and humble skill at not completely upsetting the babies a...
I’ve made a wonderful mistake. My twins have been finding it difficult to settle after they feed at night, so I let them fall asleep listening to my heartbeat. Good idea, right? I mean, what’s the wor...
There will be days when nothing goes right. The baby will be endlessly upset and you won’t know why but it will leave you stressed and tired, looking at your to-do list like a college student looks at...
We’ve all seen the routine: cries of duress from a helpless soul are heard by a sleepless protagonist who swoops in and saves the day.
There’s times when we all could use a superhero, especially us ne...
