We need to believe the kids will be all right

Mother and Son holding hands

I remember reading somewhere that the best time to talk to your child is when you are in the car driving. Evidently, they are your captive audience, and you have their undivided attention. It is also less confronting for them because they don’t have to make eye contact with you.   This sounds fine in…

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I am right, you are wrong, and this is why

“My values didn’t align with his and we had too many different opinions.”   I nodded my head in interest as the candidate I was interviewing told me this was the reason why she’d left her most recent role. She was the Executive Assistant, supporting the person with whom she did not have ‘shared opinions’…

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Can someone please turn up the Air Con?

Menopause in the Workplace

“She told me that my problem is I’m too nice.”   It’s Saturday morning cricket in Brisbane and at 7am it’s already nearing 30 degrees. I’m drinking hot coffee whilst simultaneously sweltering. It’s an early start and still two and a half hours to go so when it comes to caffeine, necessity prevails, despite the…

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