It is a moment I have been dreading for quite some time now - the time when Little Miss starts asking the obvious pertinent question that will eventually drive both Wife and I insane, ‘Why?’.
Not just once or twice, not just in context, but repeatedly and incessantly. The answer to any question is currently being […]

Do you ever get the feeling that one of your main roles as a parent is to just try and not completely screw up your kids?
More and more I am coming to the reluctant conclusion that this is a major part of being a parent. Sure you have to teach them the skills needed to […]

Little Miss has started inventing words to describe things in her world that she doesn’t yet have a proper word yet. I don’t mean nonsensical sounds like babies make, but full blown words.Perhaps the best example is the way she describes a CD she has that skips a little (toddler finger prints are not good […]

I knew it would come to an end one day, I just didn’t think it would make me sad when it did.Tonight after 2 months of being on constant shower duty with our toddler Little Miss she declared that tonight she wanted to shower with her mother.No more ‘Daddy, carry me in the shower with […]

In yet another episode that makes me question whether I am seriously cut out for the fatherhood gig that I have taken on someone has sent me a link to a website and as wrong as I know it is I just can’t take it seriously.The website  www.fatherhood.org is for an organisation that sets out […]