After I turned the lights off in Eldest Son’s bedroom, I lay down next to him and stroked his head and chatted with him. He started to rub his eyes. “Don’t rub your eyes, darling. It’s bad for them.” “I’m just wiping the tears away, Daddy.” “Why are you sad, darling?” “Because sometimes I think [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Eldest Son’
Heartbreak
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Family on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Not Having A Willy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, Eldest Son, Family, Freud, Nephew, Niece, Penis Envy, Willy, Youngest Son on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some years ago now, my children were all having a bath together – and having a great time. I had just gone to get their pyjamas, when I heard an appalling scream from Daughter: “Noooooooooooo!” – so I raced back in, seeing the boys’ giggling faces and Daughter’s face scrunched up in pain. “What’s wrong?” [...]
The Dressing Down That Wasn’t.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Discipline, Eldest Son, Family on March 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Me: “How is it that you seem to get away with so much more than everyone else, Eldest Son?” Eldest Son: “Because you told me that if I work hard at something, and because I am clever, I will manage to do it brilliantly, and I have worked really hard at getting away with more, [...]
“The Tudors” – A New Analysis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Family, Hampton Court, Henry VIII, Royal Family, Samuel Beckett, The National Portrait Gallery, Tudors, Youngest Son on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was driving the children to school on Monday morning, and Eldest Son was advising me of his perspective on the current Royal house. He has been (as all English children seem to – certainly I did, back in the mists of time), learning about Henry VIII and the Tudors. This has given me the [...]
A Losing Game
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Family, Family Game, Inception, Jeremy Paxman on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was playing a game with Eldest Son this weekend: a game which he has created. This means that he has drawn the playing cards that are used (some very impressive dragons, monsters and “creatures of deep evil”, to quote his evocative and sinister phrase) to which he has accorded various powers. It’s “Top Trumps” [...]
Talk-back Tot
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Family on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To parents’ evening last night with Temporary Wife. All went pretty much as expected, and there was that rewarding feeling that the teachers responsible for our children’s education could at least identify them (as opposed to the woman who taught them in their Nursery year, from whom one got the distinct feeling that she couldn’t [...]
Lurking Vitamins
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Family, Vitamins, Wife on December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wife made muffins for breakfast this morning (not proper ones, but those American cup-cake things) – not because she actually IS Doris Day, but because we didn’t have any bread in the house and she decided that it was actually easier to make these than to go out and get some bread. Anyway, she used [...]
Saints’ Tales for Children
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, Eldest Son, Family, Saints' Tales for Children, St John the Baptist, St Martha, St Michael, Wife, Youngest Son on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If anyone is interested in knowing about a gap in the market (and, I dare say, a market in the gap) then stories of the Saints, told for children (ie: the cool bits, with only a glancing dose of holiness) is a real opportunity. This half term’s homework has been for each of our children [...]
An Update on Snow White
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Snow White, Tom Tom, Wife on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Part of my job (a large part of my job, in fact) is identifying and boring people senseless about archetypes and cross-cultural stories that can be identified and pressed into the service of brands. So I have spent a lot of the year to date talking about myths of dragon-slaying, archetypes of The Hero and [...]
This Little Piggy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Family, Swine Flu, Tamiflu, Wife on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eldest Son has got Swine Flu. He appeared crying, boiling hot and complaining of a terrible headache and awful cough in the middle of the night on Monday. Wife `phoned the Doctor and was told that there was no point testing him as the results would take two weeks to come through, by which point [...]
