According to reports the cold weather in January of this year resulted in many couple finding alternative ways of keeping warm – the result being 12 week scans for March totalling well above the usual monthly average. Consequently September is expected to be a very busy month in the maternity wards across the UK.
Kicking it all off at the end of August is Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha, whose baby girl was born early on Tuesday 24th August and delivered by Caesarean section at the Royal …

Alfie is now two years old and Charlie has just passed the 3 month milestone. As such we are moving Alfie into the bigger bedroom with a view to Charlie taking the nursery in the weeks to come. Alfies first night in his new room was more stressful for me and his mum that it was for him. We were worried that he’d be out of bed, a lovely little Thomas the tank bed it is, running around his room. As it turned out, apart from taking 10 minutes longer …

My wife is Christian; I’m Jewish. Since we were not going to have children together, this wasn’t much of an issue since this was a second marriage for both of us. We did have the Christmas tree problem but resolved that amicably, by at first going to her parent’s house to celebrate Christmas with them. When my wife got sick and we couldn’t make it that year, I relented and we brought the Christmas tree into our home.
Now we’re celebrating both Christmas and Hannukah in our …

There’s no question that technology changes faster than most of us yuppies and boomers can handle. I don’t know what the current number of years for technology “generations” is, but I do know that if you have children five or more years apartin age, they will each use technology differently. I’ve observed my own two boys, just three years apart, using social media/smart phones each in his own distinct way. My younger son relies almost exclusively on texting, while my older son actually occasionally talks on his cell-phone. …

I’ve learned repeatedly in my life that whenever I give to the world, whether by direct action or donations, I get back so much more than the effort or money involved. This is a life lesson that our kids should learn as so many of them, here in America, are living the “easy life” with no sense of the hardships most of the world has to bear and that most of mankind has historically suffered.
One of the unexpected benefits of my writing career and now my radio show is …