Discussions about things to do with family life, or what a family may discuss (either as parents with other people – something they have heard on the news perhaps), or with each other, or with the children.
Contrary to popular belief but women don’t continue to breastfeed in order to avoid having sex. In fact you may be surprised to know that people are breastfeeding whilst pregnant!?! I know how does that happen when breastfeeding helps provide a natural contraception and women are apparently avoiding sex!! So then I heard about this … Read more
Parents face all manner of difficult decisions regarding their children, and those whose children have special needs have a load more on top.. One of the things I have come across quiet a lot with parents of children who have (or may have) Aspergers is whether to tell the child about it. Some feel that … Read more
Talking with the girls and it turns out that half of us iron, and half of us do not bother. So it lead me to think about the question To Iron or Not to Iron? We went through a phase in this house where we stopped ironing. We felt that we weren’t any good at ironing … Read more
When do people “grow up” and what do we mean by this? Do we expect people to behave in a different way from let’s say they first start school to 30 years after they’ve left? Do we judge people on how “grown up” we deem them to be? Or is this a not a very … Read more
Should we ban smoking in cars? In Britain around 80,000 people a year still die of smoking-related illnesses. Every year over 300,000 children in the UK go to their GP with illnesses such as bronchitis and pneumonia as a result of exposure to passive smoking. “A study by the Royal College of Physicians (2010) shows that … Read more
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has now revised its recommendations on children’s liquid paracetamol dosages My little boy has not been well. My husband bought some more Calpol and noticed that the box was a different shape – more square. On closer inspection it does clearly say that there is a new dosage … Read more
The greater the number of people present the less likely you are to help. A two-year-old girl, Yue Yue, wandering in the street in a market in Foshan, China, was hit by a van. The driver stopped for a moment and continued on, rolling over the girl again with the van’s rear wheels. Over the course of … Read more
So here they are changing our street lights so that they turn off at midnight, in order to save money. Which councils are changing their lights We had the right to express any concerns. They were that: There may be an increase in criminal activity. They said that it has been found to decrease crime … Read more