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PR Mum: Do we pass on our learning anxieties?

PR Mum: Do we pass on our learning anxieties?

As a PR I spend much of my time writing. It is something I love and something that comes quite naturally. As a former journalist, writing is the one thing…

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Gum

Gum

As parents we are conditioned to find the things that our offspring do to emulate us endearing. These usually fall into two categories.
The first being when they try…

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Unruly pupils in schools

Unruly pupils in schools

No-one on the planet is annoying me more than Jamie Oliver and his “Dream School” campaign to save a bunch of so-called under-achieving teenagers. From the moment the programme starts…

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LIVE and kicking

Yesterday was the first Workingmums LIVE event. The evening before did not bode well. I spent it making a 254-piece wooden fantasy villa [one of daughter two's birthday presents], photocopying…

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Tax - aaaarrrh!<br />

Tax - aaaarrrh!

Many years ago I took the advice of an experienced, wise old freelance journalist who strongly urged me to use the services of an accountant to do my tax instead…

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