Tweet I can still remember the moment I realised I needed glasses. I had only gone to the optician’s appointment at school to get out of PE. ‘Cover your right eye with your hand…
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Tweet It’s 100 years today since Emily Davison threw herself in front of the King’s horse and died. She was protesting against the fact that women were not, in 1913, treated as equal citizens.…
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Tweet I’ve seen quite a few newspaper articles and blog posts recently debating the question of tutors, whether it’s worth it, and so on. This was our experience. When No 1 Son got to…
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Tweet If there’s one thing guaranteed to make me furious, it’s hearing that exams over the past 20 years have been ‘dumbed down’. Furious because I’m the mother of a child who excelled at…
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Tweet This is my nephew, Ben, and my mum looking at the iPad together. My mum is nearly 81. She is very bright and articulate but she has never really understood computers, even though…
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Tweet GCSEs were introduced the year after I sat my ‘O’ levels. What I remember is that there was total chaos in our school as teachers struggled to get to grips with the new…
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Tweet It’s Thursday, and school starts again next Tuesday. No 1 Son has had a lovely time, doing everything he wants – seeing his mates, going to the movies, playing games on XBox Live,…
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Tweet Seeing the world through my child’s eyes is one of my greatest joys. I’m lucky to have been a travel editor on several magazines, so I’ve been able to take No 1 Son…