Mothering by Numbers
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... Read More
Expose Yourself
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... Read More
Fri 23/3, 1-2pm BBC 3 Counties
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
Failing Better
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... Read More
The Triple Burden
Rummaging around my PC looking for a the beginnings of an article I thought I’d written I found something else I started writing over a year ago and never quite finished before forgetting about it. I give you an eplanation of what the ‘triple burden’ of motherhood is and why it’s an issue. Let me know what you think: The Triple Burden: Bad Behaviour, Broken Heating and a Burgeoning Workload? I have turned to writing to stave... Read More
