I am currently on a management training course. It is ruinously expensive and has lasted 11 years with no end in sight. It comes with extreme highs and lows, but even when I’m at my wits’ end I know it’s the best thing I’ve ever done.
That’s because the Motherhood Ability Development course (MAD for short) has all kinds of transferable skills.
Once you’ve dealt with a furious three-year-old who is face-down on the floor, fists flying, because the butter on his toast has melted, you can easily cope with a press officer who is ringing up because you’ve been mean about their chief executive.
And when you are confronted with a pre-teen who thinks they know everything, well, it becomes a little easier to
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