“Will we be on time?” Boy Two glances anxiously at the car click. It’s the weekend and we are driving to a snowboarding lesson. Instead of a calm reassurance, the poor boy gets a bit of a rant and then a lecture. The thing is – he knows when we’ve to be there and how […]
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When should children drink alcohol?
Now before you get all hot under the collar and suggest I’m advocating child abuse, would you like a drink? A refreshing G&T or perhaps a glass of something cold and white? You deserve one, it’s been a tough day. There’s something I’ve been struggling with. Here in Scotland, booze is a problem. It costs […]
When is a child not a child?
When he’s a teenager. We’re still here enjoying the Maltese sunshine for the last couple of days before that bitter-sweet return home. The comfort of familiarity tempered by the shadows of the boring old grown up stuff that starts looming again. We’ve visited several of the fabulous attractions here – no complaints at all. Not […]
Life’s not fair when you’ve got siblings
My triumvirate of sons have one thing in common. They will all wail “it’s not fair” many times a day as one injustice or another befalls them. Almost certainly they have perceived that one of their number has been treated differently and, in the unlikely event that it’s not my fault, it will fall to […]