“I now have a wonderful balance of physical styling work with new and existing clients as well as my online course business. I am in the beginning stages of writing my third course. It’s addictive – a bit like a drug!”
Author: Annie Ridout
Work Life
“My husband and I hadn’t been acting like we were a team. I won’t speak for him, but I’d say my attitude was one of struggle, resentment and battling. We were only half supporting each other,” says Rebecca Caution…
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“What I have done amazingly well is … not giving up, even though at every turn it would have been easier. Raising a disabled child will always make me vulnerable to things going wrong,” says writer Penny Wincer…
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“I had teachers crying on me wondering how they would survive, so there was a real sense that we needed to pull together to get through and keep our community together,” says Abby McLachlan…
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When UK schools shut during the March lockdown, the childcare and homeschooling fell disproportionately to the mothers. And their careers suffered. Here’s how to do it differently this time…
Family
There’s something Annie Ridout is finding increasingly frustrating. Why are parents no longer telling their kids the difference between right and wrong, and that it’s not OK to hurt other children?
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“As a family, we try to collect as many books featuring Black protagonists and characters as we can, and yet our collection is nowhere near as big as we’d like,” says Ebony Lyon. So she founded a publishing company with her husband…
Family
A child having a lie-in should be cause for celebration. So why do we instead start panicking that there’s something seriously wrong, and preparing ourselves for a trip to A&E?
Features
With all the demands and tantrums, parenting young kids during lockdown can be incredibly testing. To help your kids to feel more positive, focus on the good stuff in their lives and feel grateful – try this…
Work Life
For those of us with the kids at home full-time, it’s a real challenge finding the time to work. What we need is a work schedule that takes into account our lack-of-time. Guess what? We’ve created exactly that, just for you…