MAN ALIVE

LEARNING THE ART OF LIVING WELL

THE WORLD JUST CHANGED, GO EASY ON YOURSELF AND YOUR KIDS

March 21, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Lots of parents and guardians across the UK picked their children up from school for the last time in who-knows-how-long on Friday this week. The abruptness, shock, fear and confusion of it all reminded me of something else: grief. And grief, at least as I experienced it, can feel a lot like pressure. What will […]

BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK TO INSECURITY

September 21, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

‘I don’t like my school anymore,’ my six-year-old son told me after his first day in year two last week. ‘I haven’t got any friends.’ This seemed peculiar given that he is still attending the same school as the year before, with the same pupils and even, for the time being, the same teacher. I […]