Tag: modern parenting
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Walk of shame
The married-with-kids version of the walk of shame where you desperately try to get your child to nap by pushing her in the pram round the neighbourhood and all she does is scream “TV!!!” at the top of her lungs for a good twenty-five minutes before finally conking out.
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Stay very still..
My daughters are nearly 8 and 3 and a half years old and they play together so little that when do it’s like a miraculous sighting of a rare bird.
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Meeting up with friends who have kids in winter..
Aargh when you have kids someone is always ill! As a consequence my social life during winter consists almost entirely of standing in the drizzle at a playground chatting to other parents in the short window one has before someone’s child screams “I’m cold! I want to go home!”/it rains.
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How do you tell your children about climate change?
This cartoon of my daughter aged 7 is basically a revamp of an earlier cartoon I drew when she was 4: Her reactions have not changed in that time, she is still very sensitive and prone to dramatic meltdowns about the smallest of things, and I still haven’t had a talk with her or her…
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It’s not the lights, it’s the flights..
I don’t know how much of it is wilful ignorance and how much is actual ignorance, but many people I know are in complete denial about how bad flying is. They are the kind of people who would say they ‘believe’ in climate change and want to do their bit for the environment, but will…
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Doom scrolling
There is a lot of weird downtime with parenting a two and a half year old when you don’t know when you are next going to be needed but it is probably going to be in the next five to ten minutes and so actually scrolling through Twitter is just about the only thing you…
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