Atmosphere: how to make it or break it
Atmosphere is taken for granted It’s interesting that commonly, people choose to go to a restaurant or pub, where there is ‘vibe’. The establishment uses upbeat music, big screens, décor...
Fear Not: a Christian non-negotiable
Fear feels right; reality feels wrong Fear can seem so rational, logical and right. It feels safe and real and true. It certainly presents in such a way as to...
Four-Year-Olds: fast and fascinating
Be “Social Butterflies” or have “Social Butterflies” Four-year-olds develop a great deal in this year socially and emotionally. Depending on personality and experience, four-year-olds seem to either delight in socialising...
Parenting three-year-olds: visiting wonderland
Sometimes three-year-olds act as though they will never return from la-la land? How they love to create their fantasy and be free and fanciful. The three-year-olds developmental stage is one...
Parent Guilt: 7 Symptoms, 7 steps to change
Parent guilt: finding freedom Parent guilt happens I don’t know of a parent who hasn’t succumbed at some stage to feeling guilty. (It’s usually pretty soon after we’ve held that...
Finding Myself As I Find Father God
N ot everyones cup of tea, but I must confess always having had a fascination for discovering the influences of birth order on my relationships, how early childhood experiences frame my...
Off the hook
W hen my kids were little, I’d sometimes intervene in an altercation to untangle the garbled accusations and deal with each according to the wisdom of an adult in the...
Not Your Fairy Godfather
"G ood" is one of those wonderful bursting with fullness words, that through common use is rendered to translate more like “nice”. What an anathema! The kind of Goodness I'm...
love hurts on your own
T here was a time when I attended a “New Age” camp, the idea being, like with most religions and philosophies that by doing so I’d be somewhat more enlightened...