A firsthand motorway sick-child mishap and the stranger who brought water—an affecting reminder of practical help in a crisis.
My son was inconsolable and the back seat was an absolute mess. After a few minutes of trying to clean up, a stranger emerged from a nearby house Read more in the kindness of strangers series Kids always get sick at the worst possible time. For instance: in the middle of a busy motorway, one hour into a three-hour trip. My husband was away for work and I was driving our two small children to see him, when one vomited in the back seat. I pulled into a slipway just off the motorway to try to clea…
Review of a comedy that examines couples’ decision whether to have children, with Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen.
Toronto film festival: To be a parent or not to be a parent is the question propelling this often insightful yet largely run-of-the-mill riff on a Judd Apatow movie It’s a question still casually and routinely asked to couples everywhere regardless of familiarity, one that many fear and some feel actively offended by: are you guys gonna have kids? Despite living in an age where we’re supposedly more accepting of people who make choices that don’t conform to whatever dusty old standards our pare…