Here’s a story from the very earliest days of my career as a journalist. In fact, it was one of my very first assignments as a news reporter, a job I would never have had without first studying a technical qualification.
Has there ever been a better time to tell your kids they are amazing and have your support? With the world taking its first tentative steps out of the latest COVID-19 lockdown and adjusting to the new normal, our children need to hear positive affirmations and to hear how strong and wonderful they are. Why
Go to any library and look at the parenting books. Three things will strike you. First of all, there will be fewer books for dads than mums. Second, the books that do exist for dads are generally condescending and “light hearted” in nature. Third, there is nothing (and I mean absolutely nothing) aimed at dads
Kate Clanchy’s Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me took me by surprise. It may be that I’d misunderstood something in the accompanying media release, but I thought this was going to be a funny and witty set of anecdotes based on Clanchy’s 30 years of working in the classroom.
Flexible working should be more widely available to fathers and people without children. So concludes a significant new research project into how managers have dealt with the change in working practices and working culture during the COVID-19 pandemic.
