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I am at this stage with my son and I know that there is a tricky balance between being supportive and interfering. So…follow this link to an article -from the American point of view but with really helpful suggestions that would work anywhere in the world!
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As a proud Mum of one of the graduating students I attended the Napier University Graduate Showcase for students in its School of Creative Industries. Walking round the exhibits demonstrating the creativity of all of the students was inspiring. The question that kept coming into my head was “where on earth did he/she get that […]

The driver who brought me back from the airport told me that he had retired as a traffic cop a few years before. He had a decent pension so did not need to earn a living but he was bored so he took this job driving and loved it. He loved meeting new people and […]

I met up with former colleagues that I haven’t seen for a while . As is usually the case we got talking about our various offspring and what they are up to now. Compared to them I had my babies really young as they all still had kids in school. We started to chat about how […]

My good blog friend Peggy wrote this post about surviving the economic downturn in the US. I read a lot of HR blogs many of which are written from the American perspective. I am in no way an expert in UK employment law but I have realised that the rules on firing employees in the […]

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