Category: Teenager Taming

In July, last year, I wrote about the discussion I had with my daughters about feminism. In that post I established that neither of the

Organising a family day out in the Summer Holidays used to be easy. I’d think of somewhere to go, tell the girls the type of

As a father with two daughters, I’m keen that they grow up knowing that they should be willing and able to stand up for themselves.

30 years ago, both Julie and I had left school by this stage; Julie now and me the previous year. We both went to fairly

When I finished secondary school, in the dim and distant past of both the last century and the last millennium, we had a School Leavers

Today was the last of the GCSEs for Emma. It also marked her last day of school, but that’s another thing. Emma is part of

May half-term. The perfect time to get in a holiday. Get everyone together and head off somewhere interesting. Or exciting. Or new… But; not any

It’s work experience week and Ceri, who’s in Year 10, has spent the week in a work environment. Well, I say a ‘week’ but it’s

I remember the first song I ever bought. I went to Woolworths and bought the vinyl single of Elton John’s 1986 live version of Candle