Author: Sam Wilson-Späth
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Our anarchic New Year’s resolutions
There’s nothing wrong with resolving to lose weight or to climb up the career ladder in 2015, but how about making a collective New Year’s resolution as a family, focusing on the greater good? By Sam Wilson
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Why you should be jolly terrified of the office party
Some useful insight and advice from a brave survivor of the scariest of all corporate traditions. By Sam Wilson
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I’m happily married, but I want a divorce!
Is marriage everything it’s cracked up to be? And if you’re happy in your marriage, do you really need all those rules and regulations you swore by on your wedding day? Sam Wilson mulls what it means to say I do.
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The politics of the party pack
There are few enough opportunities these days to teach our children the fun of simply giving, without expecting anything in return. And – on a purely practical level – is it a good idea to give kids who are already sugar-fuelled to their eyeballs, a little extra tartrazine for the road? I mean… why?
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Building men, woman alone
Two boys down the line, Sam Wilson has come to terms with the fact that she didn’t get to make a “mini-me” like a Russian doll. In fact, she’s come to embrace it.
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The real cost of parenting
We often talk about the cost of raising kids – from the nappies through to school fees and feeding teenagers – but that’s just the financial cost. Or, if you’re not feeling the pinch, that’s the investment we make to give our kids the best possible start we can.
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Fix parenting screw-ups like so
Apologising to your child is no easy task – especially when you might have scarred him for life. That’s why Sam Wilson invented the Therapy Jar.
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Children are weird, but parents are even weirder
Is parenthood a form of authoritarianism, or does it work best as a democracy? For Sam Wilson, it’s more like negotiated anarchy.
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Sam Wilson
Sam Wilson lives in Cape Town with her husband Andreas, and teenage sons, Josef and Benjamin. She works in content and social media, but spent over a decade writing parenting columns about her sons growing up, for a living. Now that they can read, they are less than amused.