on being a grown-up…

I’m doing a course. I kept crying because I couldn’t get my son to hang his coat on his peg at nursery. So I’m doing a course. What I want to get out of it is either a) I will be able to get my son to hang his coat on his peg, b) I […]

what if…

Britain’s schools must be “more than just exam factories”, a cross-party parliamentary group says. Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said the report “tackles one of the most pressing questions currently facing our education system: how do we educate resilient young people who have a sense of moral purpose and character, that will grow up to […]

An enchanted place…

It came out of nowhere. It hit us hard and we weren’t expecting it. My husband had already had a difficult few days anyway. He had been to see his mother which always involves days, if not weeks, of us fighting before hand, a challenging time while he is there and usually more fighting afterwards. […]