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A return to pre-lockdown life looms
Twas the night before March 8, and all through the house… parents were frantically ironing shirts, hunting for lunch boxes (fact: lids are to kitchen cupboards what socks are to washing machines) and cursing the fact they’d just bought new blazers last March, right before schools shut for months on end and children grew about a foot and a half.
Meanwhile, children, having become accustomed to only prising their eyes open minutes before online registration, and taking advantage of muted mics to wander out of class for snacks and unfeasibly lengthy toilet breaks, were in several shades of meltdown.
Like William and Harry, my brother and I drifted apart in adulthood – and making up won t be easy
Strained relationships between adult siblings, especially brothers, are common – but they can be reconciled with effort on both sides
4 March 2021 • 2:51pm
The princes rift has made headlines, but it s common for adult siblings not to get along
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As children, my elder brother and I shared absolutely everything. We’d watch the same TV shows, play the same video games and read the same books. Two years older than me, my brother was my absolute hero. Yet nowadays we don’t speak at all outside of family events.
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An A&E doctor has been balancing shifts at a hospital with homeschooling her seven-year-old during the latest coronavirus lockdown - as parents across Britain continue to perform the ultimate lockdown balancing act, MailOnline has revealed.
One mother has taken to foraging for mushrooms to gain some much needed alone time while a mother of two autistic children has to balance their education with running two businesses.
Parents were plunged into a repeat of Lockdown One when schools shuttered for a second time from Tuesday, January 5, amid a rising number of coronavirus cases.
Last year schools were closed between March and September as the deadly disease ravaged the country. Some 94,000 Britons have died so far with an increase of more than a thousand a day more recently.