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From working mums to househusbands and mumpreneurs, follow our bloggers as they negotiate the world of work/life balance.

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Easter childcare

Easter is drawing near and finding people to look after three children [the baby is at nursery] is hard work. My mum has valiantly done Monday and Tuesday, despite her…

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Related tags: Childcare | Easter

Sun and sickness

It was always going to happen. The sun came out and both my partner and I succumbed to the vomit virus. However, in slightly different ways. My partner hung around on…

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Related tags: Childcare | Sickness

The Grand Spoilers

Now here is an important debate – are they a help or a hindrance? Here’s the reality as far as I’m concerned; they are both!

My husband’s…

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Shared baby leave

It's got to be good news for women that the Government is proposing to allow men to take more of a share in baby leave. Nick Clegg announced yesterday…

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Grandparents and childcare

It didn't work. Daughter two, who enjoys experiments [her room is packed with bits of old equipment which she plans to transform into robots, etc], decided towards the end of…

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