A glance at the bookshelves reveals that baby-rearing theories change more often than the environment into which babies are born, and of course, far more frequently than humans evolve. Similarly there’s never a shortage of new investment guides from the latest tipsters. But just as bringing up a baby today should, fundamentally, be really no […]
I have an interest in childcare so this Opinion piece by Janet Daley caught my eye. She laments the absence of grandparents, and feels guilty herself at pursuing her career instead of offering support to her struggling daughter. Her central question:
Why are educated working women, who are more highly paid than ever before, having to […]
Apologies, but Sophia, in all her glorious 9 days on this earth, has occupied her parents completely. I’ve barely had time to catch up on other blogs, newspapers etc. We’re currently following the “when she sleeps, we sleep” rule, which leaves litle opportunity to catch up on some reading. About the only advantage of being […]
Weighing in at 7lbs 1oz, Sophia was born at 0951 on 21 November. Parent economists are both fine, though Daddy is extremely tired. Despite he exhaustion of watching a loved one endure incalculable physical pain, there are a number of other random observations that I intend to expand on, once my brain gets into gear:
Many […]
Baby Boot is two days late. And we discovered last week that apparently my wife and I don’t agree on a middle name for a girl (and still have a disagreement of the ordering of the names should it be a boy). Perhaps we can take inspiration from this list of the most popular celebrity-inspired names in Britain, […]
Christmas comes but once a year - so how come it seems to take me by surprise as far as gift shopping goes? Of course, despite the advance warning, I never contemplate doing the shopping in September, partly because I am not conditioned to think about the gifts until the requsite environmental cues are salient […]
A few weeks ago, my wife and I visited a nursery for our expected child. It’s one of several in the area but the only one with opening times that are conducive to both mine and my wife’s working hours.
We are keen to get Baby Boot in there but were told that in order to […]
My wife and I are expecting our first child and I thought it would be interesting to offer a sort of diary of observations related to economics and child rearing.
First observation related to the future. Up until a couple of months ago we believed that we still might have some sort of social life, babysitters […]
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