Do you think we as grandparents are under appreciated sometimes? I don’t expect heaps of praise or adulation when I look after Jake or help out with the family, but it is nice to feel appreciated. For those who scoff at the idea of Grandparents’ Day as nothing more than a commercial invention, let me [...]
Remembering my granny
Poor Jake had a bit of a cold last week and Sophie and I spent an afternoon in the kitchen looking at old photographs while he slept. I was amazed to come across a picture of myself as a baby being held by my own grandmother. Most surprising, I think, was how old she looked. [...]
Jake eats his first meal
Parenting today is rather different to how it was when my own children were small. Nowadays you wait until your baby is six months old before you introduce solid food. In my day you were encouraged to be more intuitive and to introduce a little solid food as soon as the baby seemed hungry enough [...]