Day: July 18, 2024

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SELECTION NOT ELECTION

Not being selected for the team that we have longed to play for (or indeed which we have longed for  our child to play for) may be felt as a

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THE GREAT IMPOSTERS  

“Jarvo 69” this week hit the headlines when he strode out onto the famous Lord’s cricket ground  after lunch on the third day of the cricket test between England and

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YES WE CAN

Barack Obama rose to the position of President of the United States of America on the back of a  famous speech in New Hampshire in 2008, a speech that the

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RUDYARD COACHING

Many readers will be aware of the famous poem by Rudyard Kipling entitled simply ‘If’ but may not  have connected the advice given in the poem to be appropriate for

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IMPROVE THE PERSON NOT THE PLAYER  

The first lady British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, once famously said that, “Being powerful is  like being a lady: if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t!” The

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GREAT AMBITIONS 

We have previously considered how ambition can be dangerous and unhelpful to children if they,  like the Shakespearian character Malvolio, are blinded by ambition and grandiose thoughts of  themselves as