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Mothering by Numbers

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Journalists often call me asking for my views on working motherhood (there’s a whole treasure trove of it here) and lately the stand-out conversations have been around motherhood and numbers: what’s the best age to have a baby and what’s the ideal length of maternity leave? A stateside friend of mine has also been canvassing my views on the impact of upping her working week from three days to four. Unlike TV producers the journalists accommodate my ‘shades of grey’ approach to answering such questions because as you know, you bright-minded thing, this parenting lark ain’t one we can... 

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Expose Yourself

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

I was going to call this month’s Flourishing Female mailing “Put Yourself About” and then decided such slutty overtones would never do here. So Expose Yourself it is, although actually I’m writing on a rain-whipped day and the last thing I feel like doing is exposing anything to anyone. But of course you know I’m not here for bare bottom cheek, it’s your mind, your intellect that I’m asking you to expose this month. I listened to a riveting BBC radio 4 podcast recently in which Peter Day (a business journalist if you don’t know him) had a conversation with Reid Hoffman, the co-founder... 

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Fri 23/3, 1-2pm BBC 3 Counties

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

I don’t know what the subject matter is going to be but do flick your DAB radio to BBC 3 Counties on Friday 23/3/12, 1-2pm for what I hope will be (it better be anyway, otherwise that’s my fun Friday afternoon out the window) me having some amusing chat with the host, Nick Coffer. Pearls of practical wisdom come as standard. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7nr Share this:  Read More

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Failing Better

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

I got a call a couple of weeks ago from a young journalist (who is now probably put off motherhood for life given what was going on in the background and my seeming inability to string a sentence together – why oh why didn’t I let the answering service kick in?) seeking my views on the psychology of young women and failure. She told me about a brilliant teacher at an all girls school in Wimbledon who’d recently run an experiment to help her young minds cope with failure; the so called “Failure Fortnight.”  Apparently the vast majority of her pupils would rather swallow a pill and never... 

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