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Review : Childcare – the easy way to find local childcare

March 1, 2020 By Ellen

Finding childcare is troublesome, isn’t it? The first time childcare crossed my mind was around 20 years ago when I realised that I had both a tiny baby and the need to get a job to feed the aforementioned tiny baby. At that time, my best money earning option was in back-shift newspaper production. There […]

Filed Under: review Tagged With: boys, childcare, childminder, family, My Life, nanny, parent, Review

A letter to Nicola Sturgeon

September 5, 2016 By Ellen

Dear Nicola I was sorry to hear your news about the miscarriage. Now you’ve joined the sad and sorry ranks of women who lost a baby. Welcome. There are quite a lot of us, aren’t there? Some of us went on to have children, others didn’t – they couldn’t or decided the risk was too […]

Filed Under: feminism, other things I have learned Tagged With: baby, childcare, childless, children, family, feminism, in the world, miscarriage, Nicola Sturgeon, SNP, women

What would make this country the best in the world to bring up children?

October 1, 2012 By Ellen

Glasgow’s Riverside museum – fabulous and free We all want the very best upbringing for our children. Of course we do. It goes without saying that along with the stretchmarks and eye bags we get a built in urge to try our hardest to make this happen. Often this journey is one of impossible riddles […]

Filed Under: child poverty, childcare, flexible working, help, lone parents, National Parenting Strategy, parenting, PND, Scottish Government Tagged With: childcare

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