3 reasons your teenager might skip breakfast and what to do about it
As I sit at the breakfast table with 12-year-old Martin, awaiting his daily bowl of Weetbix, I ask him, “So, how many do you do?” With a cheeky grin and …
Wellbeing
How to put life on easy mode
The other day I was having such a chill, easy day despite doing all of my usual work and chores and workout activities — the phrase, “Life on Easy Mode” came …
My divorce left me so sad and isolated I ended up in hospital
Going through divorce is a devastating time for woman, as Carolyn Tate shares. It was 3 o’clock in the morning when I woke my ex-husband, who had been sleeping in …
You don’t have to fit the mould to be a worthy woman
Sometimes I feel like well-dressed, polished, business women are the only acceptable representation of what it is to be a woman. They flock to international women’s day events in their …
It’s raining, but at least it’s not raining bullets
“I used to love the rain, but now I hate it so much. Why won’t it stop raining?!” my youngest moans. “At least it’s not raining bullets,” I answer. Perhaps …
Netflix’s Sex Education is doing sex education better than most schools
Netflix’s comedy Sex Education, now in its third season, is set among a group of students and teachers at a British high school. In depicting sex education, it teaches viewers …