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6 lessons that sports can teach us that school doesn’t
I was thinking that when I try to explain some important life lessons to my kids I tend to think in terms of sporting metaphors, like a four year old and one year old need sporting metaphors from the 90s and 00s. The point being that active participation in sport can teach children so many […]
Arts and Crafts for Kids – Get Fired
I recently found this great place to take the arts and crafts for kids, it is a very simple concept, you select a clay figure to paint and decorate, the shop supplies you with all the things you need (it has a nice coffee and cake shop too), you paint it, they put in in […]
Kids Day Out – London Transport Museum
We recently took a day out to the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden – funny how you can live in a city most of your life and never even go, or know about museums like this. This is a real treasure trove for children of all ages. You start off with a look at […]
Day Out for Kids – Brooklands Transport Museum
We went to a super museum, one of the biggest I’ve seen, spread over seveal acres, Brooklands (in Weybridge, Surrey) has vintage cars, buses, bikes, planes and helicopters. For me the real highlight was the planes, actually being able to go into some of the old planes, including a concorde, although book in advance or […]
Writing Journey part IV: taking the conversation into the real world – business card design
Business cards are always important despite having a blog, twitter, G+, facebook et al. Business card design and design in general is something that I have spent a lot of time learning about and experimenting on. I set about the business card design with a very clear objective. On the front I wanted to have […]
Working Dad – writing journey part III: Which book cover design did I choose?
I’d like to say that the last item on publishing the book was to choose between which book cover design I liked the most, but this really was no where near the last item I had to do. More accurately it could be described as the last fun item I had to do on the […]
Working Dad – writing journey part II: Deciding on the best concept for the book cover design
After I finished the seventh draft of the book, I sent it to my editor. I had a few weeks before she would come back with her feedback so I started to work on the book cover design. There were three main cover ideas that I had, I then spent the next few […]
Working Dad – writing journey part I: Why I’m writing a book
The big announce is out I am due to launch my next book in the next couple of weeks. I’m writing a book for working dads! But why am I writing a book for working dads? In the next set of blog posts I’m going to take you through the writing process and share […]
How to explain bad news to a child
Not a particularly merry blog post but it’s something that we need to consider. Fortunately I’ve not yet been in the position to break bad news to my kids, but it’s something it’d be foolish not to consider thinking about how to explain bad news to a child. To protect them or to tell them […]