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“I’m very polite,” my three-year-old daughter proclaimed. “Yes, you are,” I agreed. “My friends at nursery aren’t as polite as me. They don’t know how to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. I need to teach them.” I thought about pointing out that it might not […]
Dear nursery, This letter is way overdue. I’m sure there have been many times in the months since my daughter started attending your nursery that you thought, “How could this girl’s parents possibly let her out of the house like this?” So let me explain. […]
I looked at myself in the mirror the other day and thought, “I wonder if I need some statement eyebrows.” I had never really put much thought into my eyebrows – they’re not especially bushy or particularly thin, and besides plucking a few stray hairs, […]
“I’m very polite,” my three-year-old daughter proclaimed. “Yes, you are,” I agreed. “My friends at nursery aren’t as polite as me. They don’t know how to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. I need to teach them.” I thought about pointing out that it might not […]
It’s a pretty good time to be a kid. I mean, in some ways it’s pretty terrible. With Brexit, Trump and the persistent threat of global warming, the world that our kids inherit is likely to be in quite a state. But looking beyond the […]
There’s a man on my bus with a fake leg. I know this because we get off at the same stop every morning, and one day he lifted up his trouser leg to fix his shoe and I saw a glint of metal. “Well, that’s […]
Dear nursery, This letter is way overdue. I’m sure there have been many times in the months since my daughter started attending your nursery that you thought, “How could this girl’s parents possibly let her out of the house like this?” So let me explain. […]
I looked at myself in the mirror the other day and thought, “I wonder if I need some statement eyebrows.” I had never really put much thought into my eyebrows – they’re not especially bushy or particularly thin, and besides plucking a few stray hairs, […]
I’d like to start off by saying that I’m not obsessed with boobs. Yes, I wrote about them in my last post. I hadn’t planned to write a whole boob series, okay? But I recently read two boob-related stories that filled me with rage, and […]
Last weekend I saw a teenage girl wearing a crop top that said, “I have no tits.” I thought about that shirt for the rest of the day. Why would someone wear a shirt that draws attention to body parts that people shouldn’t be staring […]
A year ago, I had an idea. I’d recently read that 29% of UK women drop out of the workforce after having a baby. This shocked me…and yet it didn’t. Yes, some of these women voluntarily leave work because they want to spend time with […]
