Category: working mum
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Disappearing Scientists: The Female Researchers Lost To Pandemic Childcare
Some of those best placed to help us through the pandemic went missing. Men have always published more scientific papers than women. Covid-19 has made the gender divide even worse.
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London With A Four Year Old: The Natural History Museum And Beyond
For those who like them, sorry for the lack of science rants recently, if you’re going to blog about people getting complicated stuff wrong you have to put in a lot of time making sure you aren’t also talking out of your own *ahem* and time has been in short supply of late. Today’s strike…
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5 Reasons Why Tech Firms Should Be Selling Wearables to Mums (Or should that be Moms?)
Not a Smart Watch Google have just announced a range of new smart watches. Devices, linked to your smartphone that sit on your wrist and let you know about incoming calls or messages and enable you to use apps and reject calls without even taking your phone out of your bag. These newbies join some…
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Why I’m Not Signing the Petition Against Longer School Hours
Its not because I think teachers should work longer hours. How anyone has the energy to look after a room full of six year olds, then go home and carry on working, I will never know. It’s not because I want my childrens’ academic progress to come before everything else in their lives (I don’t). It’s…
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Under Pressure
30 Day Blog Challenge – Day 13: Sing a song (yes I’m a bit late again with this one) Today’s blog challenge was to pick a song for the post title. I had no idea where I was going to go with this until I realised that E’s current favourite song actually fits nicely with…
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Everybody Be Cool – This Is A School offer
I tried to ignore it, I tried to convince myself that I was cool about it, hey I’m not one of those parents who obsesses about their kid’s primary school place, it’s just primary school! She’ll be fine wherever. But eventually school offers day had to arrive… We actually did ok, E got offered our…
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Baby On Board Update
Charitable Thoughts Since deciding to pin on my TFL Baby On Board badge I’ve been interested to see if it actually works – so far I’ve got a seat most days, although not because someone has offered me one. Half term means the trains are slightly quieter than normal and there has been a spare…
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Comfort
Never is the need for something comfortable to wear more pressing (quite literally), than in these first few weeks of the second trimester. I’ve given up all hope of wearing “normal” trousers or skirts, even hooking one of E’s hair bands between the button and button hole of my flies isn’t enough to get me…
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Poorly Sick
I’m off sick, boo, but it’s Thursday, which means it’s R2BC (reasons to be cheerful) day so I’m on the sofa under a blanket, looking for the bright side: 1- I’m sick on a work day. I do feel bad that I’m not in work today, there was stuff I wanted to get done, I’m…
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How to Worry a Working Mum
It’s the curse of the working mother – childcare. Quite apart from the costs, there is always that little nagging doubt about what your child is up to all day and how well they are being cared for. I’m reasonably confident about E’s nursery, she seems to enjoy it and although it’s hard to get…
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