NHS week
I'm having an NHS-kind of a week. I spent Saturday night in A & E with daughter one and every night since Sunday I have been propped up in bed…
Blog
From working mums to househusbands and mumpreneurs, follow our bloggers as they negotiate the world of work/life balance.
Nativity politics
Another thing that came creeping up on us the other week was perhaps the most important, the most anxiety-inducing, moment in the year of any parent of a young child.…
Strike action
It's the strike today and people keep asking how badly it is affecting parents. Forget the fact that many of the public sector workers are themselves parents and that in…
Childcare cuts
For a Government that is supposedly interested in courting the female vote, the Chancellor's statement strikes a rather discordant note. While it has announced an extension of free nursery places for…
The Slap
Recently I have become obsessed with a book called The Slap, which has been dramatised into a TV show. This story has made me think a lot because I do…
