I want it NOW! 

I often say my kids live in the now. What matters to them most, is what is happening right now.  

Can they have the PS4 controller – now.  

Can they have a snack – now. 

Can so and so play at our house – now!

But I think that is most of us. We are so focussed on what we have to do today. What we have to do tomorrow. What we have planned for the future.

It is easy to forget what...

Read Part 1 -  Why I think Strong is the New Pretty - Part 1

Like I said, I can be very convincing. 

When I was a kid and my parents told me I couldn’t go somewhere – I wouldn’t accept ‘no.’  My ‘yes’ campaigns could go on for days, even weeks. For example, Mum and Dad didn’t want me to go on the Year 11 ski trip, likely because neither I, nor they, had ever skied before. But I really wanted to go....