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While Danish kids dissect roadkill, mine haul rucksacks in a heatwave
Crawling toward the end of the English school year with the emotional energy of a melting Calippo, a WhatsApp from a friend in Denmark stops me in my…
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Bøvl: How Danes Embrace Trouble (& Why You Should Too)
Why telling children to 'keep out of trouble' and counselling adults to 'steer clear of complications' might just be the worst advice ever. On embracing…
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How to Hold the Sun: A Danish Midsummer Survival Guide
This week, I had the honour of giving the Sankt Hans bonfire speech for Danes in the UK. In need of a 10 minute caffeinated sunbeam of a pep talk? Here…
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Take Two Paracetamol and Call Me Next Week
A tale of two health systems - featuring Take a Break vs Sundhed magazine, matching blouses and emergency care
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If it’s too hard to be a parent in the Nordics, then it’s too hard to be a parent
Birth rates are dropping, even in Norway. Is 'intensive parenting' to blame?
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Can free school meals make you richer?
Denmark’s school lunch lottery, how universal school meals are making Nordics smarter, healthier, taller...even wealthier - and why we need in on the…
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Miranda July Made Me Buy A Shed
In search of arbejdsglæde - or 'happiness at work' - via All Fours, a garden centre and a small patch of green behind the compost heap...
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Sunshine, Sadness & Spectral Queens: Big Feelings at Hampton Court Palace
There’s something surreal about discussing Danish parenting and feeling sad in the shadow of an English royal palace said to be haunted by Catherine…
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The Joy of Running Danishly
Why being picked last for team sports shouldn't slow any of us down; Viking parenting in The Happiness Lab; plus WIN tickets to the Feel Good Festival
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Living Danishly with Helen Russell
Living Danishly with Helen Russell
Author of 6 books inc The Year of Living Danishly and How to Raise a Viking. Former editor marieclaire.co.uk turned Scandinavia correspondent. I write about what it means to live a good life around the world (when not herding mini Vikings...)
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