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Is anybody else buckling under the pressure of Christmas expectations? A flurry of demands tha...
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Hey ho, hey ho, it’s into Advent we go! The Christmas countdown is certainly apace. We&r...
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I know it’s an uncomfortable topic which is not often talked about – that’s ...
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A new phase of family life will begin in a couple of weeks when my wife goes back to work part...
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Cityparents' Director Helen Beedham talks to Christine Armstrong, the writer, speaker and ...
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I check my phone and see an email from school. The sort of email every working parent dreads. ...
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When your wife is pregnant, as a prospective father there are million and one things rushing t...
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Anna Richards talks to Dr Brad Reedy, the parenting expert, author and the Owner and Clinical ...
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I recently returned to the city after a wonderful one year of maternity leave. Thi...
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August hadn’t gone well. In fact life in general seemed to have taken a distinct turn fo...
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Like many of us with school age children, we have started the autumn term and come back to ear...
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Last August, I decided to go part-time, dropping down to a four-day week. A number of th...
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Since becoming a parent, I was very thankful when my younger son stopped breastfeeding at 11 m...
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Anna Richards from Cityparents talks to Meik Wiking, founder of the world's first Happines...
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I’m sure that many of you reading this have some kind of routine established with your c...
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Trigger warning: serious illness Most people hate hearing the “C” wor...
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It’s a balmy summer evening and I’m lying on my acupuncturist’s couch in lea...
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Anna Richards talks to Pensions Partner, James Riley and Business Manager, Letty Gibbs about t...
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I have been chuckling at the assumption that life gets ‘easier’ when children star...
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"Mummy, there's nothing in the house!" As some parents may be able to relat...
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Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘19 - that’s the preschool class - if I could...
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I am so over kids’ parties. Even when I was a kid they caused me traum...
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Anna Richards talks to lawyer Philip Reed, a senior associate at Farrer & Co, about his ex...
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They say that if you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrib...
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