First up, I think it’s funny anyone would ask me about managing family and work life Last week after I asked what you would all like me to write about here, two readers asked for ideas on how I manage the whole work-life balance thing. My first thought was that I kind of don’t. The…
Category: family life
Work and play during the school holidays
On Monday, the first official day of the spring school holidays, I put the kids to work washing and cleaning out both of our cars. I’ve been playing Chinese checkers with whoever will play with me after dinner time. Our 11-year-old is crazy good at the game. Or maybe I’m just really bad at it. Last night…
Parents of little kids, remember grown-up conversations?
They’re really nice, aren’t they? Around this time last month my husband and I rocked up to a school function that didn’t exist because we had got the date wrong. Since we’d already bribed our eldest to babysit we opted to stay out for a while. I was almost as excited as a teenager on…
Love in the family wins when it comes to bringing people to God
A recent survey has confirmed that one’s parents and other family members have the greatest influence on a person’s religious attitudes and beliefs throughout his or her life. And many people are attracted to examine their ideas about religion and faith by people, not celebrities or public figures, who they observe to be authentic examples…
