Special summer project, decode your dad, Father's Day, eating disorders...
V excited about a special summer project for BBC radio - I'm doing 4 weekends of shows in July to cover the lovely Graham Torrington while he's away. These shows will go out over seven BBC Western radio regions and I hope to hear from you!
On the Saturday nights it'll be love songs (lurve those love songs!) and dedications between 10 PM and 1 AM and Sunday nights will be fantastic - chatting about many things we all care about and taking your calls. The first show's Sunday, July 3 and I hope you'll get in touch! Contact details nearer the time.
Hope you haven't forgotten it’s Father's Day on Sunday. You might adore your dad but find it hard to communicate with him so I've written an article on how to "decode your dad" that's gone live on MSN UK Life & Style channel today.
I take common things fathers say to their adolescent or ‘grown-up’ daughters and tell you what he really means.
Defo Father’s Day is an excuse to spoil him - though you really don't need an excuse to spoil your dear old dad (but don't use the word "old" in his presence!).
TODAY’S THOUGHT: Appreciate him while he's in your life - I miss my late-father every single day - and think of him many times throughout the day - his kindness, wisdom and patience (he needed bags of patience with me - especially as a law-unto-myself as a teenager).
Remember your dad won’t always be there - make sure he knows how much you love and appreciate him. Thankfully I have no regrets on that score - we were very close and he knew I loved and adored him to bits.
Woot, looking forward to the line-up at Hyde Park next Wednesday - only hope it's not pouring with rain - caught in a thunderstorm last night after dinner friends - had the drowned rat-look by the time I got in - but v happy the farmers are getting much-needed rain.
Shocking report in today's Sun about boys as young as 10 developing eating disorders like bulimia... and we thought it was only girls at that age struggling with the dire, devastating problem of eating disorders.
Yup, research in the last 10 years shows teenage boys are at risk of anorexia (though less at risk than teenage girls) but now we find it’s earlier this - the best parents can do? Try and present a good role model of eating well, don't get freaked out about a little excess weight, boost their child's self-esteem and keep careful watch on anything like bullying - that can have a terrible effect on how a child sees them self and lead to eating disorders.
It's Friday, have a phenomenonal weekend, Pam X