Offers seven ways to resist September over-scheduling, including letting children be bored and chatting to strangers.
The pressure to self-optimise at the start of the new school year can lead to disappointment and burnout. Instead, here are seven ways to slow things down and reap the benefits It is a hangover from our school days that September can feel like a time for getting back to the grind. As in January, there is a sense that we should return as better workers, partners, friends and parents. This sense is even stronger now a culture of optimisation – has taken over – evidenced by the fad for adding “max…
A Jeremy Nguyen cartoon skewering the adult pull of back-to-school sales and its inner-child nostalgia.
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Reports Russell Howard and Cerys Morgan’s announcement of their son Felix’s death and their memorial foundation.
Comedian and his wife, Cerys Morgan, set up charitable foundation in memory of Felix, who died shortly after birth Russell Howard has announced the death of his baby son, in what he described as the “most devastating time of our lives”. The 46-year-old comedian said his family had been “changed for ever” after their “beautiful baby boy”, Felix, died shortly after birth. Continue reading...