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Where was the last place you had it?

December 20, 2019 By Ellen

That, along with ‘just tidy up and you’ll find it’ or ‘retrace your steps’, are what my children hear every time they mournfully tell me that they’ve lost something or, worse, that ‘it’s gone…’. Apparently, among the many other things that mothers are supposed to be is the role of Finder, Rememberer and Keeper, particularly […]

They never ask men how they’re going to juggle everything…

November 2, 2017 By Ellen

You hear quite often. That thing about how no one ever asking a ‘pregnant’ dad how he’s going to juggle work and childcare. Nope, for them it’s all manly slaps and pass the cigar. Apparently. But I’m not a man, much less a ‘pregnant’ one, so I don’t know what I’m likely to get asked. […]