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In an earlier blog, I shared my resolutions to adopt a little of our daughter’s natural ...
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It is the time of year when my employer conducts the annual appraisal process. Having been a c...
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I have come to the conclusion that I need to take lessons from my children in coping with chan...
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In 2015 I started maternity leave on top of the world. I was a senior manager, high performer,...
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As a full-time lawyer at a city firm, I had a little ‘wobble’ recently over whethe...
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It's been a while since my last blog. Since then, and after a few years of searching fo...
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No this isn’t a remix/lyrics to the song by Diplo from the “Monsters in my head&rd...
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"September may normally be the season of mellow fruitfulness and a nice new coat, but thi...
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These early months of autumn have seen some fairly seismic changes in family life. The new ter...
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I often hear that to achieve work life balance you must ‘make your partner a true partne...
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It’s a brutal place, the City. I saw a guy crossing the street the second the lights tur...
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When I went on my first maternity leave, I was wildly optimistic about all of the spare time t...
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Last week was Alternative Family Week ( http://www.alternativeparenting.co.uk/alternative-fam...
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Today I cried at work. It’s been a very challenging week, with a huge amount of change i...
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My children are still small (just 1 and 3) but I am already grappling with the hectic ‘b...
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Earlier in the summer, a middle aged husband, lets call him Mr X, wrote an anonymous letter to...
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As a break from the expensive clubs and far-flung activities I usually book for the summer hol...
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Our working parent household is one that has, after three and a half years started to function...
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This July saw my eldest son’s last day at our lovely village primary school. In Septembe...
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I bloody hate sports day. It's a month since this year's ordeal and I'm still...
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I have been thinking long and hard about what is the best way to start a conversation about me...
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"We have two women here who have got on and had a very constructive discussion. Two women...
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‘Mummy, what does Brexit mean?’ No doubt I am not the only parent to be aske...
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Our three-year old son is not a very good sleeper. Actually, that’s not quite true - ...
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