Taming your household terrorist!
RULES. LIMITS. BOUNDARIES. CONSEQUENCES.
Mums and Dads have lost sleep over these issues ever since kids were ...
When your ageing parent needs help
Handling concerns about the elderly with dignity and respect
All over the world – despite differences in their cultures, resources and family structures – people are asking the same question: How do we balance our ageing parents’ need for care with their desire to stay independent?Geriatrician Leslie Kernisan (MD, MPH), founder of ‘Better Health While Aging’, teamed up with award-winning author Paula Spencer Scott – and their book, ‘When Your Aging Parent Needs Help,’ is the result: a practical, step by-step guide for anyone facing an ageing parent’s decline.
Below are some top tips from Paula Spencer Scott on how to address those concerns in a way that’s both helpful and respectful to our beloved oldies.
Issue 4, 2024
FEATURED ARTICLES
Not if, but when
First aid in the outdoors
“DAD! TRAE'S NOT MOVING – his eyes are rolled back in his head, and he’s lying in a pool of blood! What should I ...
Home Sweet Home
How to Sunbathe
EVERYONE LOVES THE SUN, and everyone – including white supremacists – wouldn’t mind looking just a little bit ...
Everyday Eats
Garlic butter pan-seared steak PLUS Sticky braised pork belly bao
JASMIN WESTON (@jasmineats) is here to help you transform your cooking game and show you how to make easy, ...
Art of Manliness
Take the ‘d-word’ off the table
IN A FAMOUS STUDY done a couple of decades ago, researchers wanted to see whether the ‘proximity and salience’ ...
Going Places
Once upon a week in The Cotswolds
NEXT TIME YOU’RE IN LONDON, ONCE you’ve seen the sights, ogled at Big Ben, toddled across Trafalgar Square, and ...
Rest of issue
You Ain’t Gonna Believe This!
Fun facts that'll blow your mind!
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That's like a human jumping the length of a football ...
Pick of the Bunch
Ugly Suits & Wagon Woes
UGLY ATTIRE:
When the store manager returned from lunch, he noticed his sales assistant’s hand was bandaged, ...
Backchat
Little Wolf
ONCE UPON A BORING afternoon, I Googled the word ‘Cooney’. And guess what? My surname, it seems, is derived from ...
Be Thankful!
Encouraging an ‘attitude of gratitude’ in your family
THE WORLD HAS WOKEN UP to the measurable benefits of gratitude. Neuroscientists tell us that practicing ...
Stillpoint
Ready to be a kid again?
IF I MEET UP THIS WEEK with a reasonably good fairy who has time on her hands and a few random wishes to spare, ...
The Crispy Bits
Medical Misadventure
“TO GET FIRED, YOU WOULD HAVE to kill someone. And then it would have to be someone important.” That was said to ...