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There's a particular moment most parents of a learner swimmer remember: the week their child lets go of the side, ...
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Results day has a sound of its own: the envelope tearing, or the refresh button on an exam board website, then a s...
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If one of your parents still lives at home because a carer comes in every morning, or three times a day, you proba...
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Ask most parents who made the biggest difference to their child's school year and, quietly, a lot of them will nam...
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If your child has worked with a speech and language therapist (a speech-language pathologist, or SLP, in the US an...
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On a we...
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Every school day, before most of us have finished our coffee, someone pulls up at the end of the road, opens the d...
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A year ago, your baby's world was an incubator, a tangle of wires and a monito...
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You got married this year. The honeymoon photos are still on your phone. And now the first big holiday as a marrie...
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Boss's Day falls on Friday 16 October this year (in the US it's 16 October, or the nearest working day when that l...
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You passed the viva, or defended the thesis, and after years of drafts, chapter meetings and comments in the margi...
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Good news often arrives by message when family lives far apart. "I got the job." "They made me head of department....
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Somewhere in the blur of the first few weeks with a new baby, most parents have a quiet moment of realising how mu...
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Father's Day has a way of sneaking up on people who live far from their dads. The shops fill with mugs and barbecu...
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Graduations are one of those days families plan around for years, and then, for all sorts of reasons, not everyone...
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Nan is turning eighty. Grandad is turning ninety. The invitations went out weeks ago, the cake is ordered, cousins...
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Some of the most patient friendships in the world are between people who have never been in the same room. Pen pal...
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There is a particular photo that only some families ever get to take: four generations in one frame. A great-grand...
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Valentine's Day in a long-distance relationship has its own small sadness. The shops are full of tables for two, y...
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Autumn sports seasons are winding down. Youth soccer, flag football, netball, hockey, cross-country: across a lot of the ...
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Around the middle of the first term, something shifts for a lot of students who have just moved away to university or college. The fresher...
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When someone you love is deployed, on a long overseas posting, or working months at a time somewhere remote (a ship, a research st...
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Someone you love has just got the keys to their first home. Maybe it's a flat they've saved for years to buy, maybe it's the first ...
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There is a particular kind of goodbye that sneaks up on parents. Your child is moving from the childminder to school, or ...
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Step-parents are often thanked last, if at all. They turn up to the school plays, learn the names of the friends, ...
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The first week in a new job is strange. You don't know where anything is, you've met twenty people whose names blu...
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Siblings are the people who knew you before you knew yourself. Then life spreads you out: one of you moves for uni...
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Every December the family photo goes out on a card. It's a lovely tradition, and the people who get it really do l...
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Visiting someone in a care home can be wonderful and, honestly, a bit hard. You arrive with good intentions, ask h...
End of term, a retirement, a teacher who held a group together through a rough year: the usual answer is a card plus a mug or a gift card. Those are fine. But if you want something that feels like the class rather than a shop, a shared photo is hard to beat. Here's one small...
