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Cristina Odone

Cristina Odone

The Guardian

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Dodging conflict / How ‘best friend parenting’ leads to spoilt kids

Dodging conflict /					 													 						How ‘best friend parenting’ leads to spoilt kids
29.03.2025 7

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

How ‘best friend parenting’ leads to spoilt kids

How ‘best friend parenting’ leads to spoilt kids
29.03.2025 5

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

Education / Audiobooks won’t help children read better

09.03.2025 20

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

Audiobooks won’t help children read better

09.03.2025 20

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

How courts punish the victims of domestic abuse

27.02.2025 10

New Statesman

Cristina Odone

Education / What Bill Gates can teach today’s mollycoddling parents

16.02.2025 10

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

What Bill Gates can teach today’s mollycoddling parents

16.02.2025 10

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

Reforming Ofsted won’t fix Britain’s problem schools

03.02.2025 2

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

Parents are asking too much of teachers

30.01.2025 2

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

Home schooling is a lifeline for desperate parents

Hard cases make bad laws. There can be no harder case than that of Sara Sharif, whose torture and eventual murder by her father and stepmother...

19.12.2024 5

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

Can Starmer help get children ‘school ready’?

It takes a lot of effort for ‘Johnny’ to take off his coat every morning when he joins his reception class. That’s because his teacher or a...

04.12.2024 3

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

Has Labour given up on solving the social care crisis already?

The Toto Washlet toilet: at the press of a button, a jet of clean warm water sprays your nether regions; press another button and warm air dries...

19.11.2024 9

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

Kemi is right about absent fathers

Kemi Badenoch MP keeps being compared to Margaret Thatcher. But the truth is she has taken on the persona of a different, though equally familiar,...

22.10.2024 4

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

What’s the problem with zero-hour contracts?

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is set to unveil her workers’ rights bill this week – and ‘exploitative’ zero-hour contracts are in the firing...

10.10.2024 3

The Spectator

Cristina Odone

Labour’s childcare confusion has gone on for too long

For parents with young children, it’s been a game of grandmother’s footsteps. First they heard from the new Labour government that they will open...

01.10.2024 4

The Spectator

Cristina Odone