Doctor-mum on how she exclusively pumped for a year
Dr Sandrine Rey-Scalco is a working mother aka multi-tasker extraordinaire! She is a medical doctor and social gerontologist. At home,...
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Feb 18, 2021
Musings on mum guilt and public policy
It's half-term week. Yay, no homeschooling! My son is teaching me to play the card game of Pokemon, and that is fun. But I find myself...
Dec 22, 2020
If Your Holiday Plans Have Been Ruined
What are the things you have been looking forward to most about the holidays? Many Governments around the world have just thrown our...
Dec 11, 2020
Family Values: How to Find and Use Yours
You walk into a room full of strangers and you get a sense of what people value by what they wear, how they stand in the room, how and...
Oct 8, 2020
If you feel annoyed with your children, your partner, yourself
It often happens when something goes not according to the ideal plan. One of my favourite writers, psychologist Lyudmila Petranovskaya...
Sep 24, 2020
What I did not expect as a first-time-mum
What I did not expect when pregnant with my first baby was that the journey would be as much, if not more, about who I was and who I am....
Sep 17, 2020
Working from home with kids - Reality check
Back in March 2020, two weeks into the lockdown, my wonderful friend and a superb leadership coach Amelia Saberwal and I ran a webinar on...
Sep 8, 2020
Working from home or living at work? Boundaries & flexibility
Working from home gave many people the flexibility to review their daily routines towards more work-life balance, like a morning...
Sep 3, 2020
The discomfort you are feeling is grief
Mums, dads, teams and leaders around the world are going through a grieving process. Grief is a normal human reaction to a loss from a...
Aug 21, 2020
The right way to parent, or to do anything really
The fun thing about The Right Way is that it is different everywhere you go. Look at parenting, for example. My family connects four...
Jul 22, 2020
The time trap: Stop thinking about Time in minutes
Once I complained to a friend that, with two kids, time is scarce. The friend's response was "Oh, you do have time, trust me!" That...
Jul 16, 2020
to fly, embrace falling
As one Olympic sportsman put it: "In ski jumping, the person who leans forward most wins. And if you lean forward too much - you fall on...
Jul 16, 2020
Who am I being that they are not shining?
As a parent or a soon-to-be-parent, when you see a teenager who looks disconnected, what do you decide to think of her? That she is bored...
Jun 12, 2020
Shared Parental Leave. Story #1 - SIMON, lawyer & policy adviser for the UK Gov
Are mums and dads equally good caregivers? The answer is - not the same, but equally good. Dads can be great caregivers, they just need...
May 25, 2020
What Makes a Good Life?
For many, life just like before the pandemic will feel like a good life today. But what makes a good life whatever the circumstances, a...
May 4, 2020
Make the effort to play!
I do not mean playing with your kids. Adults need their playtime to be creative, positive and just stay sane. You might also like to...
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