About

It was the moment my wife and I never to forget when we left the maternity hospital with our first child, Chelsea. As we stood on the threshold, with the caring support of the nursing staff behind us and the vast outside world in front of us, I was aware of the awesome responsibility of parenthood, of wanting to do the best for our new baby and yet not knowing how to. Suddenly, the prospect of parenthood no longer seemed the straightforward assignment I had previously imagined. The memory of that moment will always be a permanent reminder that we as parents are expected to do so much, with so little experience – and we are expected to get it right!

Raising children entails joys, fustrations, hard work, and assorted problems of minor or major proportions. To be a good parent requires knowledge, patience, and experience, and a good parent do not panic easily. It’s rather ironic that people have to undergo extensive training in order to be allowed to drive a car along a road for a few minutes, and yet parents don’t have to udergo any training at all in order to look after a child twenty -four hours a day, for many years. Of course there are no strict rules to parenting. Your individual reactions, common sense, and intuition may be as right as the idealized suggestions of an “authority” may be wrong.

Now that I have four children, age 2 to 10 years, I have the courage to share what I’ve gone through, observed and learnt as a parent. My sharing will not be in any particular order but in random as I feel like it. Others may find it useful, others may disagree, others may offer advice or comment. I welcome them all.

Happy reading!

Regards.