As an adult, eye contact with someone else leads to a connection. Your brainwaves are thrown out from you and go and come back through the other person’s eyes. They harmonise and are in attunement; something clicks; you are in synchrony. However, some people find it hard to make eye-contact, and there are various cultural…
There used to be a time when Mums and their newborn babies stayed in hospital for at least a week, which young parents of today find horrifying or amusing, while they compare notes with their friends about how quickly they got home after giving birth. There is no doubt that the less time spent in…
One could argue that Fashion is the visible expression of change, or progress. We ladies swapped long, cumbersome skirts for shorter divided skirts, or culottes, when our grandmothers took to the bicycle a hundred years ago, and we bobbed our hair to indicate that we had cast off our fusty pre-WW1 ‘crowning glory’ hairstyles. We…
Over recent weeks parents have been bombarded with learning materials from schools, nurseries and others for home schooling their children whilst families are confined at home during this period of ‘Lock Down’. Concern about the impact the unprecedented restrictions of ‘Lock Down’ have on children’s emotional wellbeing and their development is understandable, and not to…
Children being at home with their parents has revealed some worrying attitudes in Britain. How often have broadcasters talked about the awfulness of having ‘kids under your feet all day’, of the exhaustion of being expected to entertain them, and the mother who said her two-year-old would be distraught not being in daycare and having…
COVID-19 is having massively negative effects on the nation’s health, indeed, on our whole way of life. New dimensions in our relationships undoubtedly will be forged through the unexpected challenges we face. Indeed, in a fundamental way, the impact of this pandemic could cause a recalibration of what we previously thought we prized most in…