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Back to work with confidence

If you have taken months or even a whole year off to look after your baby, returning to work can seem a scary prospect. However, your experiences as a mother might have honed your transferable skills even further. We look at ways in which motherhood makes you better in the workplace so you can return full of confidence! I’m…

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Diary of a back-to-work mum

How do you manage to get your life in gear to re-enter the world of work once you’ve had a baby? Read, Fiona Summers, countdown to returning to work for some great insights! 10th August 2006 The end of the summer is nigh, and I feel like a schoolgirl again. I’m 33 and the dread of…

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Parent Coaching Advice

<< Back to main feature I had listened to the theory – now it was time to try out parent coaching in practice. Jo Menneer offered to give me a complimentary session and I couldn’t resist the opportunity to prove that my family was not beyond helping! The first step was to tell Jo what…

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Does motherhood make you smarter?

It’s official: motherhood does make you smarter. Sam Pope talked to US journalist, author and mother Katherine Ellison about her ground-breaking book The Mommy Brain to find out why your brain doesn’t turn to mush during motherhood. Did people joke about your ‘diminishing’ brain capacity when you became a mum?I think I probably made the most self-deprecating comments,…

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