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The following is an excerpt from parenting expert Sarah Ockwell-Smith's ‘The Starting School Book: How to choose, prepare for and settle your child at school’ (Piatkus, 2020) ....
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Now that working from home is the new norm, we’ve lost the opportunity to build our careers through face-to-face networking, so how can you continue to build your network when working remotely ...
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Before the pandemic we were already seeing the nature of work changing and the pandemic seems to have accelerated these changes. Lockdown then transformed our working lives.
As lockdown has star...
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The next return to school will be like none other. Most children have been learning from home for months here in the UK. Some went back in whole or in part at the end of last term. Some have not been...
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So there’s a lot of fear about. LOTS of fear. Of course we need to keep ourselves safe - wear masks in shop, wash our hands, follow guidelines about returning to school etc. But we don’t ...
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Adversity calls for an evolution of leadership. It has a way of revealing, course-correcting and recalibrating what leadership really means. The organisations that will be best equipped to adapt to b...
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School is drawing to a close, lockdown is easing, but most of us are still working from home, and the prospect of six weeks trying to entertain teenagers without giving in to a total screen fest, may...
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As lockdown has been ongoing for some time, those of us that deal with anxiety on a daily basis have gradually begun to become used to living our lives in this way and have become somewhat accustomed...
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Samuel Johnson, that great 18th century wit, stood by his claim that the happiest part of your life is that which you spend “lying awake in bed in the morning”. At the moment, my tw...
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In today's world, there seems to be no distinction between our work-lives and our home-lives. Most of us are contactable at any time and no matter where we are in the world thanks to our ever-pre...
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