Sarah Lucas has spent over twenty-five years working with young children and their families. She is the author of the bestselling Atomic Parenting: A Proven Approach for Today's Parents, and the founder of Atomic Parenting, a growing community helping parents swap perfection for reflection and slow childhood down in a world that is moving too fast. Based in Spain, she lives with her partner, her two teenagers, and a sausage dog named Bruno.
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Sarah Lucas, Atomic Parenting
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Her signature interview runs in the July 2026 issue, pages 17–22. Below is the actual spread, page for page, exactly as it appears in print.
You have spent over 25 years in the classroom watching both children and parents change. What have you actually witnessed happening?
Childhood, quite quietly, has been taken hostage by the pace of the world around it. Children are generally more highly strung, finding it harder to sustain focus, harder to wait, harder to self-regulate. And the parents raising them are drowning in advice that leaves them feeling like they're failing. Nobody was built for this pace, not the children, and not the adults raising them.
You wrote Atomic Parenting out of everything you had lived and learned. What finally cracked that open for you?
For a long time there was a very clear Mummy in the picture, and a very clear Miss Sarah. But Sarah? She was missing. The Sarah who played tennis, who danced until sunrise, who sang badly and loudly in the shower without a care in the world, she was gone. Rebuilding looked deeply unglamorous. It was a hundred tiny acts of remembering who I was before.
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