Flexible working. Feminism. Fun.
I’m not going to pretend that I love being pregnant. Nothing induces anxiety in me like the almost total lack of control over the tiny human who is growing in my womb. That being said, there are a few benefits – things that I didn’t […]
I recently got drawn into a bit of an online debate about the ‘pink tax’ after retweeting this post: Can you explain the price difference @BootsUK? Is pink plastic more expensive than blue or are you just keen to teach babies about gender inequality? pic.twitter.com/Gxn5KhURPl— […]
Welcome to #FlexiMamas, a series about barriers that working mums face. This edition features Stacy, a married mother to a two-year-old daughter and six-month-old son. “Before having my children, I worked as an accounts assistant. I always knew I would be a working mom and […]
I’m not going to pretend that I love being pregnant. Nothing induces anxiety in me like the almost total lack of control over the tiny human who is growing in my womb. That being said, there are a few benefits – things that I didn’t […]
I recently got drawn into a bit of an online debate about the ‘pink tax’ after retweeting this post: Can you explain the price difference @BootsUK? Is pink plastic more expensive than blue or are you just keen to teach babies about gender inequality? pic.twitter.com/Gxn5KhURPl— […]
Welcome to #FlexiMamas, a series about barriers that working mums face. This edition features Stacy, a married mother to a two-year-old daughter and six-month-old son. “Before having my children, I worked as an accounts assistant. I always knew I would be a working mom and […]
I didn’t announce my pregnancy at work until I was nearly halfway through, looking like this. I’m not going to pretend that people didn’t already know. I’m not a huge woman, so when a growth the size of a beach ball suddenly appeared under my […]
Occasionally my daughter mentions a place called ‘Ingerland’. At first I thought she was just mispronouncing ‘England’, but it soon became clear that this is a place that she’s made up in her head. I was desperate to get into her three-year-old brain and find […]
“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 […]
