The spirit of Piaget
Simon Ings‘ review in the Sunday Telegraph made some excellent points about the difficulty of writing about toddlers’ minds: This is theContinue Reading
Category: the baby in the mirror
Publication day
The Baby in the Mirror is officially published in the UK today. See an earlier post for details of publicationContinue Reading
Day of the big picture
Many things pleased me about the feature in Saturday’s Guardian, including the chance it gave to see our family set-upContinue Reading
Confessions of a house-husband
I’ve stayed at home today, working on a novel and cooking pasta carbonara for the returning troops: Isaac from nursery,Continue Reading
Available now!
In the UK, at least. The book is now available from Amazon (click the link on the right) and fromContinue Reading
I, me, repeated
Why The Baby in the Mirror? Well, it’s about a close-up view of small children, of course, an attempt toContinue Reading
Slow it down, crank it up
I have been re-reading Philippe Ariès‘ Centuries of Childhood, the classic account of the development of concepts of childhood andContinue Reading
Swept up in the stream
As for his sister before him, bedtime for Isaac is a time for pondering the mysteries of consciousness. The otherContinue Reading
Building a dream baby
In a recent interview I was asked whether a background in developmental psychology was of any advantage when it cameContinue Reading
Call that art? Well, Daddy does
I have forgotten how to watch a ‘grown-up’ film. Sit me down in front of a street-raw depiction of urbanContinue Reading
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