Wednesday Wisdom
Tooled Up tips for loving parents around the world
15/01/2025
Creative Futures
Recently, one of our ‘Tooled Up’ schools asked us to create resources about the wide variety of careers that might be considered by young people interested in creative subjects. The request has pulled the Tooled Up team down a very interesting rabbit hole. Quickly, we began contacting all of the creative people we are lucky enough to know (and some we don’t) and delving deeper into recent research around creative sector jobs. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve found myself speaking with inspiring creatives, unearthing eye-opening research, and gaining a more profound appreciation for the value of creativity in the workforce.
08/01/2025
Comfort Checks
I was recently reflecting on my early parenthood journey and the varying degrees of physical discomfort that my husband and I endured, entirely unnecessarily, for the benefit of feeling we were doing a ‘good job’.
18/12/2024
Embracing and Including
Yesterday, I took a break from writing an assembly on the theme of inclusion and belonging because I was experiencing writers’ block, so I went to the cinema to see the film, Wicked. I am not ‘one for musicals’, but by the end I was bouncing out of the place, motivated to write about what I had just seen.
11/12/2024
Christmas Present
I was born in the early 80s, and whilst we actually had quite a few ‘modern’ gadgets at home (a gigantic mobile phone in what can only be described as a briefcase is an early memory), we never had a camcorder.
04/12/2024
Only Objectified
I was watching a family video recently of my now adult son as a toddler. He was filling up a watering can in the garden whilst occasionally peering up at planes and birds that he could hear overhead. It was a picture of 2008 childhood contentment and innocence.
27/11/2024
Sweet Dreams
Sleep is one of those things we never seem to get enough of, ever! It is affected by so many variables in our life, and plays such a significant role in our wellbeing and day-to-day functioning, even more so than we may know.
20/11/2024
A Wander and a Wonder
This year, World Philosophy Day on 21st November focuses on young people in relation to its theme of ‘Philosophy for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future’. Children and young people care deeply about the existential threat bound up in the protection and stewardship of the environment, and the choices they make in the decades ahead will be vital ones. Getting them out in nature is important to not only enjoy and value it, but to philosophise about it too.
13/11/2024
Fresh Insights
This week’s Wednesday Wisdom has been written by Adrienne Katz, Director of the Cybersurvey by Youthworks.