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2 days ago

Why I Put My Own Child into Foster care — part two

3 years on; where are we now — By far the biggest response to a story I’ve posted on Medium has been to the one I wrote about why I put my child into foster care. As you’ll see from the responses on that story, the feedback was mixed, with some people empathizing with my situation and others…

Foster Care

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Why I Put My Own Child into Foster care — part two
Why I Put My Own Child into Foster care — part two
Foster Care

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2 days ago

I’ve Let My Child Loose In The World

Will she survive or not? — Daughter number 3 has just reached the age where she moves from a primary school (lower school) to a secondary school (middle school), which means she goes for a 2 minute walk around the corner to the old school to a bus ride across the nearly 3 miles to the…

Parenting

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I’ve Let My Child Loose In The World
I’ve Let My Child Loose In The World
Parenting

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·Sep 20

Not All Children Should Play Team Sports

But they should be involved in sport. — I coach children’s soccer. I do this to help a friend whose child plays, and as a former professional I’ve got some knowledge in this area. I absolutely love it, however, not all the children do. You can see it in their faces, in their body language, and the way…

Children

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Not All Sports Are Created Equal For Children
Not All Sports Are Created Equal For Children
Children

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A Parent Is Born

·Sep 14

Is It OK to Track Your Kids via Their Phone?

Or is this an invasion of privacy? — A while ago some friends took a trip to visit us and we had a lovely catch up dinner, and as the evening got to around 10pm and they were starting to think about the drive back to their house 50 miles away, one of the couple got our her…

Parenting

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Is It OK to Track Your Kids via Their Phone?
Is It OK to Track Your Kids via Their Phone?
Parenting

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Sep 7

Do You Have 10,000 Photos Not Good Enough To Go On The Wall?

That might be about to change — I love taking a photograph. I have three large prints down my hallway that I have taken and they look great. I used to take pictures with my digital SLR, but these days it’s really just with my iPhone taking snaps of the family. I checked my cloud storage and…

Photography

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Do You Have 10,000 Photos Not Good Enough To Go On The Wall?
Do You Have 10,000 Photos Not Good Enough To Go On The Wall?
Photography

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Aug 30

Is Cleaning Equipment OK As An Anniversary Gift?

Or is it playing with fire? — I’ve been married to my wife for nine years, and we were together three years before that, so it’s safe to say that I know her quite well. My wife’s Mum has been going through a tough time recently and and had just come out of hospital after a procedure…

Cleaning

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Is Cleaning Equipment OK As An Anniversary Gift?
Is Cleaning Equipment OK As An Anniversary Gift?
Cleaning

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Aug 23

Why Are Kids So Friggin Messy?

And is there now an answer to cleaning them up? — As a parent you get used to carrying around a bag of some kind in which you have a variety of cleaning products. Wipes? Check Tissues? Check Change of clothes just in case? Check You do it because kids are just so friggin messy. And for the purposes of full…

Cleaning

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Why Are Kids So Friggin Messy?
Why Are Kids So Friggin Messy?
Cleaning

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Aug 22

To kill or not too kill

How Hollywood thought Paul Simon just didn’t go far enough — Paul Simon thought the way to address your relationship issues was to slip out the back Jack, make a new plan Stan, or forty eight other relatively tame ways to solve the problem, but Hollywood has taken that a little further over the years, with many a story of lovers…

Movies

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To kill or not too kill
To kill or not too kill
Movies

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Jan 15, 2021

Kill your respondents with kindness

And respond to other people’s posts as you want to be treated — I wrote on post on Medium a while back that has had more of a response than any other I’ve written. When I talk about response, I’m not talking page views or claps, I’m talking about people adding response comments to the post. Why I Put My Own Child into Foster care I never thought I’d write anything about sending my own child into foster care. I don’t consider myself ‘one of those…medium.com

Relationships

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Kill your respondents with kindness
Kill your respondents with kindness
Relationships

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Jan 8, 2021

Can you be Mr Reliable rather than Mr Rockstar?

Do you have to be Tom Hardy rather than Tom Hanks? — I wrote a post the other week about how Woody Allen and I had some things in common. It was a post that focused on the fact that we both had ex-partners who did all in their power to make our relationships with our children hell. Someone didn’t want to…

Relationships

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Can you be Mr Reliable rather than Mr Rockstar?
Can you be Mr Reliable rather than Mr Rockstar?
Relationships

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Father of Five

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