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Your child spends hours a day in a life you only see glimpses of. Author Sahira Dharamshi on writing a teenager who could not say what she was carrying, and how parents can keep that door open at home.

Two UAE play zones are hiring high-school and university students, and the pay cheque turns out to be the smallest part of it. On first jobs, showing up when you said you would, and what one part-time party host learned.