The warmth and affection which young people have for their grandparents has always struck me as a positive thing in the world – but it was not (...)

It is over a decade since a man who was involved in training male apprentices expressed some exasperation that they did not seem interested in push(...)

I am more scared of success than of failure. You can hide behind failure. Unless the failure is catastrophic it may not change very much about (...)

I wrote recently about unjustified guilt felt by victims of child abuse. From the responses I received, both in conversation and by email, it s(...)

A couple of weeks ago on a radio programme a man was reminiscing about how, when he was 14 he was at a disco when a girl sent her friend over t(...)

I once brought an alarm clock to a hayfield. I did this ridiculous thing during the school holidays when I was condemned to long hours of makin(...)

More than 20 years ago a man I bumped into at a psychology event assured me that he no longer had negative thoughts. He had eliminated th(...)

I wonder how many readers would like to relive their adolescence? I wouldn’t and I doubt if I’m alone. I remember adolescence as a time o(...)