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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 that you’re expecting a child, probably a top-two...

The Consultative Immigration Reform Working Group has delivered its recommendations on adoption. The proposal for legislative reform was sent to Michael Dunkley, the Premier, as well as Minister of Home Affairs Patricia Gordon-Pamplin and Bermuda In...

A co-worker drew Nakita Dyer’s attention to the couple’s plight. They were looking for a surrogate, someone willing to carry the child they couldn’t have themselves. Mrs Dyer considered it kismet. Twelve years prior she had offered to do the same for...

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 find beautiful about the process of gardening is the ...

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 happy now, when can I be happy? There is a peculiar ...

Most parents feel overwhelmed at times. Andrea Lightbourne-Webster is offering support through the mayhem: a one-day conference at which parents will learn they are not on their own. “Very often parents suffer in silence thinking they are the only o...

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 and sleep withdrawal. Another reason might be tha...

Lots of women look forward to motherhood — getting to know a tiny baby, raising a growing child, developing a relationship with a maturing son or daughter. All over the world, people believe that parenting is the most rewarding part of life. And it’s...

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 well enough, that is a ridiculous and absurd though...

Abigail Lavery is well on her way to running her own business. No big deal, except she’s eight. Flying Art, the Bermuda High School student’s online art-sharing platform is now a viable enterprise. Abigail envisioned a marketplace where children cou...

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 little arms and legs and a heart and a brain so they ca...

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 at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital last week and...