Category: women’s issues
SPYING ON YOUR CHILDMINDER — Parentdish.co.uk
| April 30, 2013 | Posted by olivia under family, friendship, the way we live, women's issues, work |
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Nanny Debbie is ‘rough and rude’ with the little boy in her care. She sits on benches chatting with her friends while the child wanders around the playground, shoeless, looking for her. The reports and photographs on NannySightings.com make chilling reading…
THE MUMMY RULES — Parentdish.co.uk
| April 15, 2013 | Posted by olivia under family, friendship, the way we live, women's issues |
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All mothers know about the mummy rules…don’t they?
MIND THE GENERATION GAP — Sunday Telegraph Stella
| April 14, 2013 | Posted by olivia under family, the way we live, women's issues, work |
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Stay-at-home mother? Career high-flyer? Juggling the two? Within a few decades there has been a huge revolution in the way women can choose to lead their lives… This was the first time I’ve ever written a feature and also been interviewed for it by a co-writer. My editor Anna interviewed me and my mum, and…
BEYOND TEMPTATION — The Sunday Telegraph (Stella Magazine)
| March 25, 2013 | Posted by olivia under fashion & beauty, food, health, mental health, the way we live, women's issues |
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It’s 10.30am in Sophie Boss’s living-room, and with the coffee she’s serving a rich, home-made chocolate and pistachio cake. As she and her sister Audrey, two fortysomething mothers from north London, tuck into their slices there’s no chuckling of ‘Ooh, naughty us’, no trace of guilt and no longing glances at the rest of the…
KIDS’ BOOK CLUB: SUNSHINE BY JAN ORMEROD — Parentdish.co.uk
| February 11, 2013 | Posted by olivia under books, arts & culture, family, the way we live, women's issues, work |
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It’s a little optimistic – even a feminist ideal, from an early 1980s perspective. But it shows how modern life can work at its best and doesn’t try to put mummy in the kitchen… Click here for more on the late Jan Ormerod.
KIDS’ BOOK CLUB: SWEET VALLEY HIGH — Parentdish.co.uk
| January 28, 2013 | Posted by olivia under books, arts & culture, family, fashion & beauty, the way we live, women's issues |
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This week I was so excited to get my hands on a vintage Sweet Valley High novel again. It has been 23 years since, aged 11, I collected every single one as they came out, dreaming of what it might be like to be a size six blonde haired Californian twin girl living the all-American…
WHO SAVED HUMPHREY? — The Times Magazine
| December 15, 2012 | Posted by olivia under family, health, mental health, women's issues |
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I wrote this feature about my family’s experience of having a seriously ill baby – in particular it’s about the pioneering new field of fetal surgery with which University College Hospital treated my son in utero. Humphrey in The Times I am donating my fee to UCH’s neonatal unit and fetal medicine unit.
BREAST CANCER MYTHS EXPOSED — Parentdish.co.uk
| October 26, 2012 | Posted by olivia under health, women's issues |
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The vast majority of women don’t know the warning signs of breast cancer, according to shocking new research from charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer…
JEWISH MUM OF THE YEAR: DOES MOTHERHOOD REALLY FALL INTO CULTURAL STEREOTYPES? — Parentdish.co.uk
| October 11, 2012 | Posted by olivia under books, arts & culture, family, relationships, the way we live, women's issues |
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This week Channel 4 launched its new series Jewish Mum of the Year, in which eight formidable mothers from the Jewish community compete to show who is the ultimate in hen-pecking. Their first task was to team up to put on a bar mitzvah party ‘for a small gathering of 200′…
THE HEALTH MAXIMISERS — Red
| October 4, 2012 | Posted by olivia under health, the way we live, women's issues, work |
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We all know we should be active, eat well and make time for our mental health, too. But who can fit it all in? I asked four busy women to share their health routines in November’s RED magazine.