Hi Mum, It’s Sunday, I’m sitting here typing to you with my right thumb. Who would have thought it? I’m balancing a tiny computer called an iPhone, in my left hand and tapping away at a flat screen with letters of the alphabet in my interchangeable choice of font. Do you remember when we …
Category: Parenting
Can We Talk About Boys?
Dear Frankie, Can we talk about boys? Did you know that crushes may occur at any time during your childhood, but they generally start at around 10-13 years of age. These feelings are completely natural and they are nothing to feel worried or embarrassed about. A crush also known as ‘puppy love’ is an informal term for …
Can We Talk About Beauty?
Dear Frankie, Can we talk about beauty? I think we should, it’s an important topic of conversation that I feel we should have together. Before we get on to the subject, let’s look at where we might both be coming from first. You were born a Gen-Alpha baby, did you know that? Babies born between …
Wrapped Up Warm
Dear Frankie, Here you are all wrapped up warm and cosy in the buggy. For me it feels like minutes ago but I know for you it’s a whole lifetime. My childhood felt like an eternity too, by the time I was your age I felt as though I’d learned everything there was to know …
Making Your Bed
Dear Frankie, Asking you to make your bed is not an unusual request. I would say most parents expect their teenagers to fluff their own pillows and shake their crumpled duvet back into shape but when I asked you to make your own bed from scratch when you were 10 years old, well, …