Contributions ... please?

Oh. By the way … in my intro I neglected to mention one very important role that you out there can play in the life of this blog.

That of a surrogate parent.

If you come across scenes in your daily life that capture the pure essence of what it means to live life as a parent, then I’d love for you to tell me about it. Better still, snap an image of it and send it in. You know, it’s not as if you aren’t already taking a gazillion photos of anything remotely related to your children.

And before you accuse me of some kind of creepy impropriety, I don’t want pictures of your kids! The stuff of this blog is not your children, it’s what’s around them, and more importantly you.

Send contributions (after reading the legal stuff at the bottom of the page) to:


If submitting photos, please ensure they are as high a quality as possible. And submissions from the latter years of parenting are also welcomed, as it always helps to know not just what is around the corner, but also 10 miles down the road.

So please, go forth, capture, document and submit to the blog. Together we can nurture it from infancy to adulthood, like some kind of bastard child of ill-defined origins raised in a commune.


Oh. I’ve just realised that I am talking as if all of you have, or are about to have kids. Well, I think that’s a pretty reasonable assumption – why else would you be here?

If you don’t, or aren’t, then what are you doing here? Gloating?

Please. Get a life.

Hang on. You probably still have one…


*Legal stuff:

By submitting to "under-nu-management”, you grant Ross de Kretser the non-exclusive right to publish your photo or story on the blog or in any other publication, commercial or otherwise, without compensation. Unless you explicitly state otherwise, your submission implies that the photo is yours, and that you are qualified to give this permission. You accept responsibility for any laws broken in the act of taking the submitted photograph or publishing it.