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Hayley's blog: Mondays

I love Mondays. I know not everybody can say that. But, for me, Monday is the day of the week I get to spend with my son. I work 4 days a week - Tuesday to Friday but Monday is my day “... Read More

Ellen's blog: The Communication Code of Conduct

I thought it might be fun to share with you something that my husband and I are working on. Adoption of the CCC (“Communications Code of Conduct”) is now mandatory in our house, but yo... Read More

James's blog: Lessons learnt

In September my four-year old daughter started full-time school.  While our focus for the past five months has been supporting her learning in this new environment, with the first term now behi... Read More

Lawrence's blog: Wisdom from an old Jamaican

With my wife’s maternity leave having come to an end, she recently resigned from her part-time in-house marketing job in the city in order to take up a new full-time position working from home ... Read More

Rosie's blog: Roots and wings

  The inevitability of aging and one’s children doing the same is brought into focus at this time of year when my sons turn 11 and 13 respectively within 6 weeks of each other. Ho... Read More

Freddy's blog: Graceland

In the most privileged way possible, my daughter is currently homeless.  (“Somebody sing hello, hello, hello”.)   3... Read More

Peace's blog: My Christmas pedicure

It’s that time of year again to start planning holidays for the year and to try to submit holiday requests for next December, especially if you’re one of the few who worked during the ... Read More

Dolly's blog: The twelve days of Christmas

I did it!  I threw away my White Company catalogue and allowed the children to decorate the Christmas tree.   I have also reminded myself that, whilst I must never again emerg... Read More

Caroline's blog: Thriving or surviving?

So – the Advent countdown is well underway, with lots of school activities keeping us busy – practising lines for the Reception Nativity and the Infant Choir concert, and raiding the c... Read More

Sisieta's blog: The parenting carousel

"As we countdown to the Christmas school holidays, it’s beginning to feel a lot like we are on a revolving wheel! So about 12 weeks ago, we had the big "Back to School celebrations.&q... Read More

Hayley's blog: Breathing space

Last month I packed my bag, met my friend at the airport, hopped on a plane and spent 3 nights by a beach, drinking wine and eating copious amounts of patatas bravas. It was pretty amazing. My fri... Read More

Vicky's blog: A problem shared is a problem halved

"Listening to the radio this morning there was a story that “last year 14,000 people rang the service for help – an increase of nearly 10% compared with the previous year”. Wha... Read More

Wendy's blog: The benefits of headspace

I’ve just returned to work following my second period of maternity leave. With my first child, my mind was occupied constantly with the distractions of being a first time mother ... Read More

Ellen's blog: You can fail at least once

This is the second version of my blog; the first having been about Weinstein, Westminster and whistleblowing…….but I decided that actually enough has been said on the subject, so I w... Read More

James's blog: Only child syndrome

There has been quite a bit in the press recently about the growing number of one child families. My wife and I both have siblings – my wife is the older of two sisters and I have an older siste... Read More

Lawrence's blog: The October christmas tree

"During my weekend moonlighting as my eldest’s chauffeur (although we traipse from Saturday activity to activity with her on the back of my bike, so I’m more akin to a Deliveroo cy... Read More

Rosie's blog: Spooky goings on

Just as we are about to reach the end of the first half term at school a watershed was breached. A rare moment of freedom allowed me to do the rugby run, picking up my son and three of his friends fr... Read More

Freddy's blog: For the shy kids

The temptation to fix things is strong. Especially for a man, because it's well-known that our response to a problem, particularly one raised by a woman close to us, is to offer an immediate and ... Read More

Maria's blog: Pushing or letting be?

This weekend I was having a drink with two of my neighbours, both super achievers type parents; they were talking about their eldest child currently in Y6 applying for secondary schools and how in or... Read More

Kim's blog: Time to start letting go

My firstborn started secondary school last week.  The transition from primary loomed over like a dark cloud from the beginning of Year 6. Then one gets bogged down in the spectre that is SATs an... Read More

Dolly's blog: Who are you calling bossy?

It was the usual back-to-school chaos at Dolly Towers.   Their shirt cuffs stopped mid-forearm and last term's shoes definitely hadn't encountered a polish tin.  Ten minutes b... Read More

Caroline's blog: Change is here to stay

"OK – own up - so who flicked the switch to change summer to autumn last week? It seemed a cruel thing to do. And with it came the sudden realisation that the un-named unwashed pile of new... Read More

Hayley's blog: Time off

I have just returned to work after having just over a week "off"   with my husband and 16 month old son.   We didn't go away; the advantage of having annual le... Read More

Matt's blog: Ingredients for flexible working success

I've worked for my current employer for just over one year now.  In looking for a new role, a key criterion was the flexibility of part-time working to allow me to spend more time with my da... Read More

Marva's blog: No time like the present

So, I’ve got a little bit of time off work over the school holidays & for the first time in, I think, ever, I’ve taken a moment to sit back and reflect on how far my tiny full-ti... Read More

Ellen's blog: Summer Holidays

Will this school  holiday ever end?? The summer holiday experience seems to be very different depending on the parents’ working arrangements. I must say I don’t know how at-home moth... Read More

Lawrence's blog: The Parental Leave Experience

Through a chance meeting with a member of the HR team at work earlier in the year I was made aware of my firms recently enhanced ‘shared parental leave’ offering. As you can expect, I had... Read More

Rosie's blog: Ready for the holidays

I have been looking forward to the summer holidays for simply ages. As term-fatigue reaches its peak, the prospect of a six-week holiday seems like bliss. The City is warm and close, the formalitie... Read More

Addy's blog: The ups and downs of working from home.

I am incredibly lucky, my employer has a remote working policy that insists the majority of staff work remotely two days a week. I don’t have to fight for my right to flexibility and it is a bl... Read More

Freddy's blog: A run of bad form

When I was 13 years old I had a run of bad form at school. First I got in trouble for insulting my French teacher’s fur coat. She was a Russian woman called Madame Filipovna. A very mean and un... Read More