Portrait of Garnet by his sister or Smiths album cover? In lieu of a proper post, today I have a fun game for you, dear readers. It’s...

Part of a Lego exhibition we saw on the weekend and in no way a freakishly accurate representation of our bedroom when it’s my morning to...

This seems lovely, doesn’t it? Until you realise that is not the ocean Garnet is wallowing in but actually self-pity. See the ripples of...

Poor little kid. She and her brother are so prone to ear infections and croup. They just have tiny little respiratory tracts and...

This week he has been brought to howling tears by many and varied injustices. There was the fact that I would not go under the house to...

Occasionally he makes up a word (‘You nuckus!’) or just pops something that’s not an insult at all (‘You big sandwich!) None of it is...

How I cope with this is to put aside what I should be doing (perhaps preparing my keynote speech for the International Conference on...

This time the kids were home so we thought we’d mix things up a bit. We assessed each item with a cool and unforgiving eye, and applied...

Garnet’s preschool curriculum focuses on how to induce guilt. The slow process of settling the kids into school and preschool continues...

I have already been to school. For five whole days. What do you mean, five days isn’t enough? How long is this ridiculousness supposed to...

I was hoping the test hadn’t started yet. May Blossom has just been for her pre-starting-school chat with a kindy teacher, which is...

J. K. Rowling almost certainly had this exact pencil case in primary school. We’ve just finished reading the first Harry Potter book to...

Last week Garnet turned three. He’s not a hundred per cent ok with that. The boy has a complicated relationship with the ageing process....

Tomorrow is the first of December, which means today is the perfect day for good parents to fire up Pinterest and check out some of the...

Obviously this is not the beach we went to in this story. This is Waikiki beach, where I have also been grumpy in the recent past. I’m...

Apocalypse now, or have we time for another coffee before the end of days? ‘Why do I still have to go to kindy?’ May Blossom moaned  to...

One morning – bloody early one morning – he asked me the following questions in the space of half an hour, which is how long it takes to...

Three weeks out she started saying, ‘I don’t want to hear it’s anyone else’s birthday before mine.’ Now we’re down to four days and she...

Hiding in the corner, not doing its job well. Come on, compost bin, lean in. Hello! Well, Mental Health Week came and went last week, and...

I think I’ve figured out why smart parents make their kids listen to kids’ music. It’s so you can have conversations about how yes, the...