Puberty

I’ve spent the last year or so in trepidation, wondering what it’s like when your daughter gets her first period. Well, suddenly now I know. Yup, it happened here on the weekend. If I am honest I was hoping my twin daughters would get their first period much later than this. Though at just shy …

I went and saw the Ladybird movie at the movies with my son. “Don’t call it a date night,” he shrieked when I called it a date night for the 47th time. “But it’s a lovely night out with my favourite son,” I told my only son. “You can call it a mate night,” he …

I’ve spent years researching and writing about the ‘perfect age’ to have kids (spoiler: there isn’t one), but there is one angle that has only just become apparent to me. As someone who ‘delayed’ children, having my first at 32 — an age I have learned that many still consider quite young to start having …