Tag: family

When Your Child is Teased for Having [a] Gay Parent[s]

When Your Child is Teased for Having [a] Gay Parent[s]

This is another one of those topics which aren’t particularly nice to have to discuss, but one which is very necessary to discuss nevertheless. In all honestly we haven’t as yet experienced any one of our girls reporting to us that they’ve been teased for…

Planning the Inevitable Birds and the Bees Talk

Planning the Inevitable Birds and the Bees Talk

Having a really good memory can be both a blessing and a curse, whether each of these at different times or both at the very same time! It was indeed this realisation which led me to sit the kids down with my partner and have…

IMPORTANT – Taking a Pause to Count Your Blessings

IMPORTANT – Taking a Pause to Count Your Blessings

This is perhaps as philosophical as I’m going get in a very long time to come, but yeah, sometimes it takes travelling to someplace miles and miles away from home to realise just how blessed you are with what you have in your home environment.…

Nothing Beats a Parent’s Love for Their Children

Nothing Beats a Parent’s Love for Their Children

This post is perhaps as much for the kids as it is for their parents – the kids who are old enough to realise that they can get a lot of value out of reading a blog about parenting, that is… But yeah, I can…

Carving out Your Own, Fresh Family Traditions

Carving out Your Own, Fresh Family Traditions

Identifying with being an integral part of the LGBTI community in the modern day comes with a lot more insight than what one might anticipate. It’s about more than just being able to express oneself in the manner which comes to us most naturally with…

Interior Decor Compromise – When Styles Clash

Interior Decor Compromise – When Styles Clash

New home starters are faced with many challenges in turning their house into the home they’d both be proud of retreating to after engaging in whatever activities which take them away from it, one of which challenge is decorating. This is particularly so when both…

Rediscovering the Meaning of Life

Rediscovering the Meaning of Life

There was a time in my life, in the not-too-distant past when I honestly felt as if my very existence was insignificant – like I was just a walking, talking and thinking meat-bag which thinks just a bit too much for its own good! I…