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Good Parenting leads to happiness

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As a follow-up to The Marriage Book (published in 2000) parents of four, Nicky and Sila Lee, who run a variety of courses at Holy Trinity Brompton, have produced this comprehensive manual on parenting.In five sections, containing a number of chapters in each, the writers address issues which concern all parents, including “The five ways of showing love”, “Handling ang (ours and theirs) “ and “Building a child’s spiritual life”.The couple talked to other parents when writing the book, and they acknowledge thanks to them for their shared experiences, as well as to their own parents, and their four children, … Continue reading Good Parenting leads to happiness

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Defied her deprived background to get into Oxford reaching the pinnacle

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“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. The class system in England reveals deep-seated societal values and prejudices, often influences opportunities and lifestyle”-V.S. Naipaul Bridget Maeve Phillipson, the current Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, since July 2024, who was on free school meals, working class northern England, from single parent family who had grown up in poverty in council accommodation on benefits but defied her deprived background to … Continue reading Defied her deprived background to get into Oxford reaching the pinnacle

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What it means to be a dad today?

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In the midst of the “masculinity crisis”, award-winning historian, Augustine Sedgewick, author of Coffee-land  reveals an ambitious history of masculinity and family, from the Bronze Age to the modern day, in Fatherhood and dares to offer a more caring and affirmative vision of the roles men currently play in society. How successive generations of men have shaped our understanding of what it means to be and have a father, and in turn our ideas of who we are, where we come from and what we are capable of. What is fatherhood, and where did it come from? How has the role … Continue reading What it means to be a dad today?