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Things we were told were good for us.... that weren't

The Things We Were Told Series of mini-blogs is about all the things ‘we’ were told were good for us that actually turned out to be not so great for me (like eating three meals a day, for example), as well as the things we were told were bad for us that turned out to be really good (like working with the TV on in the background). I’d love to hear your versions of these! To turn all these ‘shoulds’ on their head and consider what we actually need, not what we or other people define as best for us.

Today’s edition of ‘things we were told were good for us’ is about getting help from other people. Paid help, in particular, if you can access that. But also help from, well, most other people. This is, I realise, in exact contradiction to the advice I have given many parents. But this is where I land.

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