One of my favourite pieces of literature is the Calvin and Hobbes comic books by Bill Waterson. They tell the story of...
DAD BLOGS: Mrunal
Public Weddings and Private Grief
I write this on the eve of the Royal Wedding of Kate and William. The whole country seems to have gone Royal Wedding...
Second Best?
I sometimes find it hard to balance the demands of two children. When there are more than one of them demanding...
Brothers and Sisters
One boy, one girl. Sounds like the perfect little family. My two children aged three and 13 months are just starting...
Teething Trouble
For the last three weeks my house has been turned into a war-zone. You see, my son Arun has been teething and has been...
The Economics of Disability
A couple of weeks ago I heard an astonishing phone in on Radio Five-Live. One caller actually argued that disabled...
Would you cross the street?
It is when you are a friend in need that you really learn about the people around you. Most of us, as parents will...
Teamwork
My wife and I thought we were a pretty good team until I started my year off. We went into it pretty optimistically –...
Old MacDonald and the Book of the Dead
One of the problems with having a young family is that it suddenly becomes so much more difficult to do those “grown...