My tired thoughts for all new and/or expectant parents out there: get your rest when you can.
All of you older parents know this truth already.
Let me start at the beginning. When you let people know...
Husayn Symonds
I have a lot of respect for gardeners and farmers. Their craft is probably the most important in human history — next to the internet and the invention of the printing press.
What I fin...
So let me start with a joke. What do you call a group of parents? A worry (cue rimshot). That might only be funny to me, but maybe it’s best to be lighthearted during times like this! If I can’t be ha...
Mother’s Day! It crept up on me this year, like a combination of a hurricane and tsunami.
I probably feel this way in part from a growing sense of total lack of preparation, increasing stress levels ...
Even though my wife and I plan to make every effort to avoid creating competition between our babies, we’ve probably already started. Which one is moving more? Which is making mommy uncomfortable? Whi...
Something which I think is important for my children to learn early, and which my wife is a great example of (you can tell her I said that), is giving maximum effort.
The Baha’i quote “ … make ye a m...
There is a slight chance that my children will be born into a world where Tottenham Hotspur could be Barclays Premier League champions.
For those of you who know either myself or the Premier League w...
I imagine, sometimes, that little babies in the womb are just like us in this life.
They can’t see beyond the limits of their little world into the next one; they don’t know that they’re growing littl...
One of my really good friends is also having a child this spring and we were on WhatsApp the other day, talking about how prepared we are (AREN’T) to be fathers.
I registered with the maternity ward ...
Are you afraid? I know you must be scared, twins on the way. You must be so nervous.
The amount of times I’ve been asked these questions is interesting. Understandable, too. Who wouldn’t be nervous w...