Everybody likes a magic pill or, in the case perhaps of GLP-1 inhibitors, and I won’t use any trade names, a magic injection. They have their role. Let’s be very, very upfront. They do have their uses. But, like all medications, there are also potential downsides. As...
All actions have consequences. Sometimes these are immediate and sometimes the effects are not seen for a period of time. For example, you can plant an apple seed today and it will take years before there are apples on the tree that you can eat. Similarly, childcare...
As a step parent, doubting yourself and feeling sick either just before your stepchildren come over or just after they leave is not uncommon. Most people are driven from a place of goodness and ideals. But such dreams and situations are sometimes shattered by...
Like nearly all of us, I sometimes look at astrological forecasts. At the start of this year nobody predicted a pandemic. Yet, to give credit where due, the prediction was for a year of unusually big upheaval based on a conjunction of Saturn and Pluto. Apparently...
What a step parent really wants to say to their partner’s ex is: “I do not want to be your child’s parent and maybe if you stopped playing all the emotional games you are currently playing, the bad mouthing of me and your ex and actually parented your child which is...
After 15 years of step parenting I have heard it all. The good, the bad, the plain ridiculous. But nothing upsets me more than the completely ill-informed know-it-all. You all know the type – they tell you everything about everything all the time. I have coined the...
