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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…