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When I returned to work after maternity leave, we decided to get a cleaner for our house. Toda...
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Taking a reflection on my career over the last 12 years has been a mixture of opportunities, m...
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In the olden days I used to exercise a lot and to a reasonably high standard, swimming as a ki...
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So, we’ve got through January. I am one of those people who actually likes the reflectio...
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It wasn't quite a New Year's resolution as I don't tend to go in for those (why no...
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In the latest edition of Cityparents Life, Anna Richards talks to Jonathan Bright, a Content M...
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Trigger warning: premature birth Life with a pretermer baby was hard enough. When...
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Christmas is a magical time of year for children, when the Big Man in Red wriggles down the ch...
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My life seems to be made up of “threes” recently. Most of you probably...
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And the Christmas clock is ticking. This year, I find myself feeling incredibly disorganised. ...
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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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