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Successful Step Parenting: Three Potential Pitfalls - No 2 Coping With Step Children
Only a day after doing the BBC Newcastle Breakfast Show, I had a phone call from BBC Birmingham, asking me to kick off the debate on Sunday morning 9.05 a.m. on – guess what – stepfamilies! What’s going on here?
In my blog of a couple of days ago, I identified the three potential pitfalls...
Posted at 18:59pm on 21st August 2009
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Successful Step Parenting: Three Potential Pitfalls - No. 1 Financial
BBC Radio Newcastle, which serves an area from the Scottish Borders to Durham, asked me to speak, this morning, on whether stepfamilies could ever be as successful and harmonious as biological families.
As before, on my interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, I answered a resounding Yes. From personal experience, plus observation of the families I...
Bbc Radio Newcastle - Interview For Discussion On Stepfamilies
Tomorrow, 18th August, 2009, at 8 a.m. BBC Radio Newcastle is broadcasting a discussion and phone-in on the topic of stepfamilies. The feeling is that successful stepfamilies are a rarity. So, as my book, Stepfamilies, depicts case studies of a number of happily blended families, and as I am a member of a happy stepfamily,...
Posted at 17:34pm on 17th August 2009
What Is The Role Of Godparents: Are They Really Relevant Today?
The Richard Bacon Show on BBC 5 Live airs a debate between midnight and one in the morning. The topic, last night, was Godparents. I was asked to be one of the panellists, to explain the role, and to argue the case that Godparents were still relevant in this day and age.
THIS ARTICLE HAS...
Posted at 14:59pm on 14th August 2009
What Is The Role Of Godparents: Are They Really Relevant Today?
UPDATED 27th FEBRUARY 2010
It seems strange, in this highly secularised world, that the concept of Godparents appears to be such a hot topic. It makes you wonder if, despite our anti-religious dogma, we’re not – deep down – actually spiritual beings after all.
Well, of course, I’m in no doubt that we are! But...
Posted at 01:00am on 14th August 2009
Psychological Differences In A Relationship? Discover Which Personality Type You Are To Avert A Clash.
Dear Mel,
I love my stepdaughter and most of the time we have an ok relationship. But there are things about her that I just don’t seem to be able to cope with. To be honest, she drives me mad. I was going to say she drives me scatty – but that’s what she is...
Posted at 14:30pm on 12th August 2009
Readers' Group Meeting - My Sister's Keeper By Jodi Picoult
Date of next meeting: Thursday 3rd September, 2009
Time: 7.30 p.m.
Venue: The Library, at The Grand
Book: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
I look forward to seeing as many of you as can make it. Mel
Posted at 09:26am on 11th August 2009
Readers' Group Discussion Conclusions - Intelligent Church By Steve Chalke
I'm so sorry I'm late in getting the discussion report out. The group met on 9th July and was led by a friend, Anne, as I had to be in London for a meeting. Anne says: “We were a very small group last Thursday (but) in many ways (that) was good, and it was...
Posted at 11:39am on 10th August 2009
Creative Writing? Active Rewriting?
Words are the tools an author can’t be without. Creative Writing depends upon their being carefully chosen and arranged. But what of the letters that make up the words?
Here are some clever anagrams which are making the rounds at present. No credit to me - they arrived in my Inbox. But I thought them...
Posted at 12:16pm on 9th August 2009
Erotic Photographs & Sacred Spaces
The Diocese of Truro is suing photographer, Andy Craddock, for taking erotic photographs of women inside the 13th Century St Michael Penkivel Church, in Cornwall, in South West England.
Naturally, the self-professed-self-taught photographer denies intentionally causing the “deep offence” claimed by the church.
“I don’t understand it and I don’t see the photographs as offensive, it’s art,” he...
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