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Myke Bartlett

Myke Bartlett

The Guardian

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I prided myself on being rational and easygoing. Then I started coaching competitive kids’ sports

21.04.2025 6

The Guardian

Myke Bartlett

Forget the novelty mugs and homemade biscuits: here’s what teachers really want for Christmas

I’m not sure when teacher gifts became another hot item on the December stress list. I have vague memories from my childhood of carrying to school...

17.12.2024 20

The Guardian

Myke Bartlett

A bored child is not a parenting failure. Teach them to shrug off the learned helplessness of boredom

Somewhere in week two of the previous school holidays, our nine-year-old wandered downstairs, looking for something or anything to do and frowned...

23.09.2024 2

The Guardian

Myke Bartlett