Tag Archives: Life
Be The Change
When my sister, Jo, was three or four she had an accident. She was climbing up the outside of the bannisters, which she was expressly forbidden to do, and fell, catching her arm in between two of the uprights, breaking her arm badly. My parents took her to The Queen Elizabeth’s Children’s Hospital in Haggerston […]
Tales of the Tantrum-expected
Today I experienced what I am going to call a ‘running tantrum’ This raised the bar tantrum-wise from a throw-yourself-on-the-floor-screaming to a run-as-fast-as-you-can-while-screaming-and-losing-it. Why was he losing it? We were in the North Harbour Reserve and he wanted to climb on the rocks that tumble down into the sea. I did not want him to […]
Jen S. Wight 