A recent article I wrote in The Bee went viral on social media. (you can read the full article here.) The Power of a Happy Meal While many of the comments were supportive, people sharing the same experiences either as parents or kids, some of the more, shall we say, predictable comments got me thinking.…
I was busy on the frontline of parenting back in 1997 when Labour last got in after nearly two decades under the Tories. It is no exaggeration to say that life under the Tories back then was brutal. It has been brutal under this last lot, but back then the demonisation of single parents was…
In a recent magazine article a woman was explaining that she'd been struggling with life. A difficult pregnancy while already having a toddler, she'd been working freelance from home, when the little one slept. Then new baby came along and feeding was hard and she had to go back to work early because they were…
Bordering Grey 