MAN ALIVE

LEARNING THE ART OF LIVING WELL

THE ART OF DEALING WITH SELF-ISOLATED LITTLE MONSTERS

April 22, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

I find it pretty awful when people try to reassure me that I’m a good parent right now. Instead of revelling in the words of praise, I recoil as I recall all the recent times I’ve nearly exploded, pushed by a child to the edge of quarantined sanity. Go ahead and #sourdough your way through […]

FIRE, OH, FIRE: MY SON SUMS UP FIERY HOMESCHOOLING

April 21, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Yesterday was horrendous. While, strictly speaking, it was the first day back at (home) school after the Easter holidays, I suppose parents across the country made a decision about how stressful they were going to make it for themselves. I – perhaps predictably – went full-force. I could have eased my son back in, but […]