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 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 Right from when No 1 Son was small, we’ve taken him on holidays around the world. One set of grandparents live in New Zealand and often the only flights we could get were…
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Tweet According to a story in the Guardian some experts are warning that the ‘growing need for males to make themselves beautiful is leading to the “increased objectification of men”’. Apparently this new cultural…