Parents – Page 2 – An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy

Wicked!

By Peter Ould Posted on May 14, 2010 Posted in Home Life, Lighter Things, Music 6 Comments Tagged with Amazing Lyric, Apollo, Appetite, Avenue Q, Best Bit, Brilliant Score, Cabaret, Defying Gravity, Glee, Http Www Youtube, London, Lunchtime, Moving, Parents, Reuben, Royal Variety Performance, Sheffield, Victoria, Wow, Yen

Two weekends ago, after a busy week and a wedding Saturday lunchtime, Gayle surprised me by getting her parents to come and stay over (to look after Reuben) and whisking me off to London to go and see Wicked. Wow. …

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Murdering Little Boys

By Peter Ould Posted on March 12, 2010 Posted in UK Politics, Wholeness 6 Comments Tagged with Aggression, Anger, Audience, Decade, Grief And Sorrow, Horrific Events, Jamie Bulger, Jon Venables And Robert Thompson, Little Boys, New Identities, Parents, Prison Officers, Public Enemies, Question Time, Secular Terms, Staf, Thompson And Venables, Torture, Two Boys, Venables And Thompson, Wrong Way

Here in the UK the news has been dominated by reports that Jon Venables, one of the two boys who murdered toddler Jamie Bulger in 1993, has been returned to jail after breaching the terms of his licence. Watching Question …

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“Please don’t label me”

By Peter Ould Posted on November 21, 2009 Posted in Home Life, Lighter Things, Reuben, Secular / Christian 4 Comments Tagged with Amusing Story, Atheist, Dogma, Drugs, Evangelicals, Gas Flame, Hearts Content, Hob, Narcotics, Parenting, Parents, People, Prejudice, Presuppositions, Reuben, Rubbish, Saucepan, Sensible Advice, Smart Kid, Sprogs, Violence

Forget the amusing story that the children on the latest atheist bus campaign are in fact sprogs of Evangelicals. What’s more hilarious is the thinking behind the campaign – “Please don’t label me – Let me grow up and choose …

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Contented Little Baby?!

By Peter Ould Posted on September 3, 2008 Posted in Reuben No Comments Tagged with Array, Attempts, Bedtime Routine, Contented Little Baby, Contented Little Baby Book, Controversial Book, Conviction, First Night, Ford, Gina, Going With The Flow, Midday, Mums, Nap, New Mother, Nurse, Parents, Premise, Reuben, Sleep, Work Colleagues, World Ford

If you are a new mother (or an experienced mother..) you may well recognise this title as that of the world-renowned Gina Ford’s controversial book. I say ‘controversial’ because it has been in our house. The premise of the book …

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Reuben rocks my world (literally)!

By Peter Ould Posted on July 21, 2008 Posted in Reuben 2 Comments Tagged with Attempt, Babe, Bit Of Wind, Hips, Last Time, Melody, Mums, Omi, Parents, Pleasure, Reuben, Rocks

I did it. I’ve heard stories from other mums and laughed when they related the tale, but didn’t contemplate that it might happen to me. We had the pleasure of Peter’s parents visiting this weekend and poor Bennie has been …

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Gotta get me one of those!

By Peter Ould Posted on June 9, 2008 Posted in Reuben No Comments Tagged with Birth Story, Broadcasting, Documentary, Dummies, Health Channel, Jewel, Light Relief, Pacifier, Parents, Reuben

I mentioned dummies on my previous post. During this last night, there was a moment I was awake at some unearthly hour (!) and turned on the TV for some light relief while entertaining our son. It was the health …

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