When I struggled with breastfeeding, ancient images of motherhood helped me feel less isolated
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I felt like a failure because I found breastfeeding so painful but visual art helped me make sense of my experienceMythical mothers, divine mot...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jan/22/when-i-struggled-with-breastfeeding-ancient-images-of-motherhood-helped-me-feel-less-isolated

It was our baby daughter’s first time at nursery and we knew there would be tears – but they weren’t ours | Séamas O'Reilly
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We hover anxiously until the childminder politely tells us to go…She looks impossibly small, like a bee-sized human. The large-format Lego blocks she’s been plopped beside make her already...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jan/22/we-knew-there-would-be-tears-but-they-werent-ours

Work less, live more: is it time to end the five-day week?
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Research shows that working fewer hours can be far more productive. Richard Godwin clocks on to find out if it’s trueI have been meaning to write about the miracles of the four...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/22/work-less-live-more-is-it-time-to-end-the-five-day-week

Stalking the dead: how tracing old photographs helped me resurrect my mother’s past
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I spent my youth running away from my mother’s Holocaust story. As mother to the grandchildren she never knew, I ached to know moreMy mother had four different first names, ...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jan/22/stalking-the-dead-how-tracing-old-photographs-helped-me-resurrect-my-mothers-past

Being single has a lot going for it, but £10k a year seems too high a price for the privilege | Emma John
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People who live alone spend almost twice as much per person as those in couples, research has revealedSome claim that the first day in the thi...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/21/being-single-has-a-lot-going-for-it-but-10k-a-year-seems-too-high-a-price-for-the-privilege

Why do flamingos stand on one leg and who invented chocolate? Try our kids’ quiz
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Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzesSubmit a questionMolly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun,...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jan/21/why-do-flamingos-stand-on-one-leg-and-who-invented-chocolate-try-our-kids-quiz