‘The voice of parents is as the voice of gods.’ So says Shakespeare. I didn’t take him for much of a parenting expert, but on this aspect of raising kids, I have to agree with the old guy. Our words carry a kind of divine weight during our children’s early years… impressing something that will…

What you say to your kids becomes their inner voice. Perhaps, the most under-estimated dimension of my parenting is the words I speak, or don’t speak, to my children. Recently, back from his first day back at school, Fynn (5) proudly told Julie and I something that inspired this post… ‘Today, me and my fwiends…