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Myke Bartlett

Myke Bartlett

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Forget the novelty mugs and homemade biscuits: here’s what teachers really want for Christmas

17.12.2024 20

The Guardian

Myke Bartlett

A bored child is not a parenting failure. Teach them to shrug off the learned helplessness of boredom

Somewhere in week two of the previous school holidays, our nine-year-old wandered downstairs, looking for something or anything to do and frowned over...

23.09.2024 10

The Guardian

Myke Bartlett

I used to mock parents who got fired up about their children’s sport. Now I’m one of them

The best parenting advice I ever read – or at least the most convincing – was “don’t let your kids do sport”. As someone who had always...

11.06.2024 10

The Guardian

Myke Bartlett

Sharing the Load How can we expect mothers to return to work if we’re so reluctant to allow fathers to stay home?

The job I was applying for was three days a week. It was a backwards step, career-wise, but the hours were attractive. By that I mean that the...

06.05.2024 20

The Guardian

Myke Bartlett

Sharing childhood faves with my kids has its ups and downs – but I know it takes them places Netflix or Disney won’t

Sharing childhood faves with the kids can be one of the most rewarding and most disappointing parts of parenthood. I will admit that one of the main...

18.03.2024 20

The Guardian

Myke Bartlett

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