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Day Fifteen – Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. A Parody.

“Don’t behave as if you are destined to live forever. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. Now.” — Marcus Aurelius FADE IN: INT. LIVING ROOM – NIGHT THE CAMERA PANS across the dimly lit room, starting from a lamp on the piano in the corner. There are toys everywhere, upturned chairs, tennis balls, a guitar flung across the sofa, dog-eared books. The mess…

Day 45 – The Usual Suspects Re-boot

INT. APOCALYPSE APARTMENTS – LIVING ROOM – NIGHT The room is in darkness. A shadowy figure moves among broken toys, scattered like dead soldiers on a battle field. Is this a ninja or a child gliding across the living room as if it wasn’t there? The only sound is the creaking of wood, the occasional beep of a Buzz Light-Year; a tiger growls from a puzzle, the last lights from a robot flicker,…

The Apocalypse NOW Daddy: The Ride Of The Valkyries

“A road trip (with a toddler) cannot give us judgment, or shake off our errors; it merely holds our attention for a moment by a certain novelty, as children pause to wonder at something unfamiliar.”

Seneca

EXT. APOCALYPSE GARDENS -DAY Trees and grass being VIEWEDthrough the veil of time or a dream. Coloured smoke wafts through the scene: a kaleidoscope, a rainbow. 8 mm family video footage,…

The World Map, Bhutan And The Post: Hi-Jack Your Children’s Minds With Postcards

Postcrossing is an awesome (parenting) tool to learn about the world. It costs very little and you can do it from home.

But before we get to that.

A story.

I’d been up all night playing online chess against a child prodigy from Russia.

I was holding my own until a slow broadband connection in Siberia forced me to open up a second screen. The FTSE was suffering from overnight tremors…

Early Morning Wakeup Call For Mr. Apocalypse: Language, Binary And Homonyms.

“In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.” – Marcus Aurelius

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Coming Soon – APOCALYPSE DADDY NOW

This is what happens when you furlough people and give them a pen.

I’ve learnt a lot writing the mindset stories the last few weeks (new one up on resilience btw). Mental models, executive functions and how kids react to lies has all been very enlightening and is fundamental to the Apocalypse family way of raising awesome children.

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Building Resilience Is Simple: 10 Childlike Steps To Know

When you’re a parent every day throws up a difficult situation for you to deal with. Your emotional resilience is tested over and over again like some kind of science experiment, your feelings, patience and resolve pushed around like out of date bacteria in a child rearing petri-dish.

If you’re anything like everybody else, every three minutes you feel like you just want to give up.

But…

WHY CHILDREN NEVER SLEEP: HAMLET UPDATED (WITH ACTOR AND AUDIO)

When you have kids bedtime is either a calm and peaceful affair or a battle ground of chaos. There is no in-between, no middle ground. It is all or nothing.

This is a Shakespeare Parody of the wonderful Hamlet and recounts a typical night of no sleep because the damn kids won’t go to bed. 

DON’T HAVE TIME TO READ? LISTEN TO THE STORY HERE

ACT I, SCENE I: Apocalypse Castle. Balcony. A balmy…

Empty except for the shadows, the road twisted and turned, snaking up to the towering Overlook Apartments at the end of the road.

“Daddy,” Alice said from the back of the car, pulling on her seat belt. “Ear Drum.”

Apocalypse Daddy looked in the rear-view mirror, not catching fully what his daughter had said. “What was that?” He said. “I thought you said something.”

“I was just saying,” Alice said, poking her brother in the ribs with an empty water bottle. “Are we nearly there yet?”

Time Travel, Social Media And 1080HD

“Social media is training us to compare our lives, instead of appreciating everything we are. No wonder why everyone is always depressed.” – Bill Murray

On that note, let’s talk about social media.

“Daddy,” Alice says as she chases a fruit fly fruitlessly around the kitchen. “What is social media?”

“It’s awesome,” I say. “In the right hands.”

She gives up chasing the fruit fly when it…

Cognitive Flexibility, Working Memory, Future Happiness And The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment

“People are frugal guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.” – Seneca

In 1972 Walter Mischel led a team of child psychologists from the prestigious Stanford University in the Stanford marshmallow experiment on delayed gratification.

Perhaps the most famous of all child psychology…

Can We Survive A Day At The Beach: Empty Roads, Whales, Sharks And The Terracotta Glory

“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.” – Buddha

I hope the next time we go to the beach the wind dies down.

The wind picked up.

It was 30 degrees and yet somehow a 50 mph wind was blowing off the sea, whipping up waves nearly a metre high in the normally sedate and tranquil waters of the French Mediterranean.

Luca was eating sand.

Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, The Meaning Of Frozen and How To Stop Your Child Being Sick In The Car

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it is not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsover.” – The 14th Dalai Lama

How much does it cost to raise a child?

It’s an expenisve question which I’m going to answer using the wisdom of Quentin Tarantino.

Quentin Tarnantino…

The Eagle Has Landed

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca

The 17th March seems a long time ago.

But that is the date the Apocalypse Daddy started writing the daily stories you all came to love so much.

The 22nd July is the date the new Apocalypse Daddy website goes live.

As you are a loyal fan, you should come on over and have a look.

You will find the same parenting…