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Dad Joke: What did one plate whisper to the other plate? Dinner is on me.

Song of the Week: Stephen Wilson Jr. - Year to Be Young 1994​

For about 2 years my son James spent his Friday evenings at swimming training…and so did I. It was an hour a week where we both spent time submerged. Him underwater, and I under about a ton of the latest research into plagiocephaly and torticollis in infants. I had decided to write a textbook…whilst he got pecs and abs...We can’t have everything!

As these things have a habit of doing, James decided after a time that swimming was not for him and turned his attention to basketball…and as for me…well, I finished my textbook…That was 2 years ago…

And it didn’t move from my laptop…there it sat…finished but unedited, done but not done, almost forgotten.

And why?

Honestly? I didn’t know what to do next, that’s why!

I knew how to gather information, assimilate data, tell the story…but then when it was ready to go…I got stuck.

Analysis Paralysis baby!

What was my next step? I didn’t exactly know…and that was hard so…I left it. It just sat there in a folder on this laptop that got opened less and less over the next months. It fell into the “someday” drawer.

I even told to my coach about it…she looked at me like I had been drinking. “You have a textbook that could change how practitioners impact kids and you’re just sitting on it?? Just get it out there” she said. “I will” I said…and then I didn’t…again.

Why?

So many reasons, I didn’t know who to send it to for editing, who deals with textbooks? How much would it cost, who does the pictures? what if no one likes it?? The list carried on.

Until one day…my wife was speaking to her cousin who casually dropped into the conversation that he had just published a book…

You know that feeling you are one part mad, and two parts embarrassed. Well…that was me. Publishing a book was HARD, hadn’t anyone told him? How come he had just gone and done it!!! The nerve of some people!

And that was it, it was all I needed. I updated the book with the latest references, found a publisher, went through the process and whilst I am writing this to you, I am looking at the prototype on my desk…its real…its actually here…I can touch it!

There are a million reasons why we wait to do things. 99% of them are absolute hogwash, and when you finally do the thing…they were never really problems to begin with.

I have heard this again and again from practitioners who are now friends who waited and waited to jump onto the Connected Paediatrics Membership. “Why did I wait so long” “I can’t believe I’ve wasted time battling to understand these concepts” and my personal favourite “But it’s all here…why didn’t you tell me sooner”

So, If I haven’t told you…

​Join Connected Paediatrics Membership…Its all there.

And if that’s a step too far for now…

Use the button below (or email me back) to get onto the waitlist for the first run of Head Start: A practitioner’s guide to hands-on care for plagiocephaly and torticollis.

Chat soon

Mike

Upcoming Paediatric Seminars:

• 4 - 6 July 2025 - PCA Symposium, Johannesburg, South Africa Online available
• 23 & 24 Aug 2025 - Paeds in Motion Part 1 (The Young Child) Boston, USA (bookings with https://peak-potential-institute.mykajabi.com/peds-in-motion-1​
• 6 & 7 Sept 2025 - Paeds in Motion Part 1 (The Young Child) Wales, UK (bookings with michellebushell3@hotmail.co.uk)
• 31 Oct 2025 - Student Paediatric Chiropractic Evening, Newcastle, UK​
• November TBA - Amsterdam - Watch this space
• 1 & 2 Nov 2025 - Management of the Neonate, Newcastle, UK​

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Connected Paediatrics – Dr Mike Marinus is a registered paediatric chiropractor treating babies and children and helping chiropractors learn effective paediatric techniques that they can use in their practice

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