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Your brother is not a towel

Your brother is not a towel

Spiders, scissors and sibling rivalry – learning how to get along (safely, if possible) with your family

Star of the sky

A great deal of academic energy has gone into answering the question: What makes something funny? The quest for a unifying theory of laughter. What the theories boil down to is this: “I did not expect that. But I enjoyed that I didn’t.” One of the delights of parenthood

Never let them see you run

I “Never let them see you run.” That’s what my teaching mentor Henry said to me when I was fresh out of teacher training, sitting in a pink-walled office at Paraparaumu College. It sounds funny on the face of it. Why would it matter if people saw you run?

Baby spin

I remember our trip to the hospital to talk “options” when Vic was in the late stages of pregnancy – the end game – with our first child. We were asked if a final-year medical student could ask us some preconsultation questions and check the baby. His clothes were very new, as

Solo expedition

Parenthood is a pilgrimage. You can buy the maps, listen to directions, get a compass, consult manuals, but really you can’t prepare for it. The terrain of your day will be forever changed, and it will keep changing. A new child is a wonderful, adorable, blissful punch in the