There are any number of similarities between being a teacher and being a parent. Both involve an awful lot of behaviour management, dealing with repetitious questions and the constant nagging sense that you're not quite doing it well enough. The biggest similarity is that, just when you think you've got a handle on what it …
One of the unlooked for joys of working with teenagers is watching them believe, with the utmost certainty, that they know better than you. It's not really their fault. Being so young they have no real frames of reference for the consequences of their actions and so their attempts to embrace the agency of adulthood …
There seems to be something of a crisis in male identity and it's easy to see why. Long gone are the traditional male roles, replaced by technology or increasing equality. I don't blame either of those things but they have led to what might be viewed as societal emasculation. For example, hunting has now been …
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