Writings by me

Will you show up on Thursday?

Put your hands up if you know who your local councillor is. Double points if you…
5 things we can learn about parenting from other cultures

You may have noticed that one of my pastimes is criticising how we parent in the…
Going back to working five days a week

Today I go back to work five days a week for the first time since becoming…
It’s time we talked about PND

I’ve always wondered about postnatal depression; the official cause of which remains unclear, though it can…
Did your kids have the BEST SUMMER HOLIDAY EVER?

Here we are almost at the end of the summer holidays, and the five words that…
Managing your emotions

This may sound like the understatement of the century but parenting is an emotional rollercoaster. In…
Talking to children about suicide

I’ve written before that my mum died by suicide when I was 11. At the time…
Men get postnatal depression too…

I’m going to start with an apology; a while back I wrote about post-natal depression (PND)…
Managing depression with kids; what it feels like and things that help

During my second pregnancy, I was diagnosed with moderate depression. The diagnosis was a long time…
Should children go to funerals?

It doesn’t feel like long ago I was writing my ‘Weddings with kids’ article only to…