Wednesday Wisdom
Tooled Up Tips for Parents and Educators Around the World
11/11/2026
School Inclusion and Belonging
It goes without saying that we are all different. We all bring a unique set of circumstances, backgrounds and perspectives to everything that we do. And perhaps it’s also stating the obvious to note that two children can walk into the same school building, sit in the same classroom, listen to the same teacher, complete the same lesson, eat in the same canteen, have break times in the same playground, and yet experience school life in totally different ways. Unless we know these children well or take the time to be curious about their experiences, we may have very little idea of what school feels like for either of them.
04/11/2026
Learner to Licensed
Learning to drive is one of the biggest milestones in a young person’s life. But what many parents may not realise is that the day their teenager passes their driving test also marks the beginning of one of the riskiest periods of their driving life. In this week’s Wednesday Wisdom, Dr Elizabeth Box, behavioural scientist and road safety expert, explores why this happens and how parents can help their teenagers become safer drivers, both before and after the test.
28/10/2026
Calm Through Exam Storms
This half-term, it is highly likely that your home is touched in some way by looming exams. Perhaps you have a ten-year-old working through another verbal reasoning paper in preparation for the 11+? Or perhaps, like me, you have a teenager preparing for mocks or finishing important GCSE or A Level coursework?
21/10/2026
Compassion for Carers
Behind many front doors this evening, someone will be measuring out medication, helping a parent up the stairs, calming a sibling’s meltdown, or quietly checking that Mum has eaten. Often that someone is a parent who hasn’t had a proper night’s sleep in years. Sometimes it is a twelve-year-old who will still hand in their homework tomorrow, or won’t, and won’t say why.
14/10/2026
Who Are We?
As a teenager in the 1990s with plenty of strong opinions, I loved nothing more than debating the big issues with my dad on crime and punishment, politics, violence, and discrimination.
07/10/2026
Drugs, Decisions and Dialogue
Intergenerational conversations about drugs remain on the “too tricky to tackle” list for many, yet there has never been a more important time to bring the topic out of the shadows. In this week’s Wednesday Wisdom, Asha Fowells shares a few facts and hacks to do just that. Asha is a pharmacist by profession, a journalist by trade, and a parent to boot. She has done a lot in the learning space, professionally in terms of training and course development as head of education and engagement for a drug education charity, and through voluntary work with drug checking services.
30/09/2026
To Autumn
Next week is National Work Life Week in the UK. This annual campaign is organised by the charity Working Families and is designed to get employers and employees talking about wellbeing at work and work-life balance. As our contribution to the conversation, we’ve invited executive coach and author Georgie Rudd to write this week’s Wednesday Wisdom.
23/09/2026
Finding Our Feet
Few things pull at our parental hearts quite like our children’s friendships. We can cope with forgotten PE kits, spelling tests and muddy shoes, but hearing that our child had no one to play with, has fallen out with a close friend, or feels excluded from a group can feel quite painful.