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Yumi Stynes

Yumi Stynes

The Guardian

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No one wants to receive unsolicited parenting advice. But there’s one effective way to handle a child’s big emotions

09.12.2024 10

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Yumi Stynes

Do you poo at work? Heeding the ‘call to stool’ is important – even if you’re at the office

In her book Stoic at Work, Annie Lawson tells the story of a colleague of hers hearing someone eating pretzels while sitting on the toilet: “The...

11.09.2024 6

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Yumi Stynes

My neighbour, 82, would give everything for just a week with her parents. What she longed to tell them surprised me

My elderly neighbour said something to me that has haunted me for the past two years. She said, “I am old. I could die soon. When? Two or three...

05.09.2024 20

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Yumi Stynes

Educating our children about periods is not a one-off event. It is an ongoing process

When Dr Melissa Kang and I wrote the period guidebook Welcome to Your Period in 2019, there was nothing like it at the time. Ideas and language around...

09.08.2024 7

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Yumi Stynes

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