The Working Parent Company

Working parents are remarkable. We activate their potential.

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Being a parent and working has its challenges. We support working parents and their employers to meet these and thrive. We are here to provide coaching and advice on how to be the parent you want to be and your most powerful, resilient and remarkable at work.

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Could this be the future?

Firms stick to four-day week after trial ends

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Love this list of 52 acts of kindness from the guardian. One for every week of the year. Pick one and get started!!

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Read this, let your partner read it, your kids, your boss. Essential reading.

Fix the System by Laura Bates.

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It’s not a case of listening to the loudest, but listening to the right people for the right answer.

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The 2023 Bright Horizons survey found that childcare was the top driver for flexibility, whereas only a third (29 per cent) of working parents said they did so to manage their own wellbeing.

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Sharon Charlton-Thomson "I loved the ‘permission’ and wisdom in the article to know and listen to the times when we need to curl up…."

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With the current narrative of self care being shouted at us from every angle. Yet another thing we ‘should’ be great at. Don’t you sometimes feel like curling up in a ball? Just as our bodies instinctively did when we were little, when the world got ‘too much’.

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The world asks so much of us, and in turn many of us ask so much of ourselves.

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A day of recognising love or a day of over commercialisation?

What is love? What is care?

Our dear partner Hetty Einzig shares her views in this exquisite piece of writing.

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Half term for some, and the week of love with Valentines day falling on Tuesday for others.

This week we are dedicating our feeds to all that we treasure about the power of relationship, to self, to children, to others.

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The data is worrying for working parents and their employers.

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Learning to be comfortable with the uncomfortable is a precious leadership skill, one that comes with scaling your leadership and building tolerance with difference, openness to conflict and essential reparative skills when meeting ruptures.

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“To grow in a fast changing, unpredictable environment, we need a population that loves learning, whose curiosity about the world is stimulated not by a fear of failing tests but a life-long passion for invention and discovery”

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The majority of our children will enter the school system. The brilliant Margaret Heffernan poses the question should school teach careerism or curiosity. I think we know the answer….

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Some good news to end the week that Shell is extending eight weeks' paid parental leave to all non-birthing parents

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Did you know that after 25 years of supporting working families we have our own unique coaching framework, one that gets results like this.

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Leadership right now is not easy. So many of us are feeling the pinch. @FutureForum's report into this highlights some key insights for us to understand.

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This year instead of asking 'Have I worked hard enough to deserve my rest?”

Let's ask "Have I rested enough to be able to do my most meaningful work?”