The growing demand for online work with children, youngsters and their families during the Covid19 pandemic presented new challenges. The well‐trodden roads had to be left. In this article we explore novel online ideas in systemic and narrative therapy. Playfulness in online work invites curiosity, vividness and collaboration, and vice versa. We conceive of it as an antidote for pitfalls and as an inspiration for responses to the threat of reductionism that lurks around the corner, especially in online work. It offers a stepping stone to a serious exploration and sharing of experiences, stories and meanings that help to develop richer understandings and more creative ideas. It is a source of new ways of relating for family members as well as for the therapist and the family. Finally, playfulness enables the weaving of threads and experiencing a sense of continuity between sessions. We illustrate our quest using several case stories. Practitioner points Playfulness as an atmosphere, attitude and intervention in online work invites curiosity, vividness and collaboration (and vice versa) while opening new therapeutic possibilities. Keeping a broad systemic scope and inviting members of the actual and imaginary network works as an antidote to the threat of reductionism in online therapy. A playful use of the online medium creates new relational dances between family members as well as between the therapist and the family.

LUC VAN DEN BERGEThe publication of Frank Furedi's Paranoid Parenting in 2001 was trend-setting in the sense that it addresses parents directly in a way that is intended to be both critical and supportive, by helping parents to look through a sociological lens at their alleged predicament. Furedi's hope is that this will lead to the restoration of parental self-confidence, which he claims to be sorely lacking in contemporary (Western?) society. I argue that such a project would be more likely to succeed if one were to hold a less dim view of the way both parents and other individuals are connected with their own society. By introducing a cultural-hermeneutical perspective on human agency, based on a specific reading of Heidegger and Taylor, I suggest a more constructive way to reconnect parents with the ongoing conversations in their communities and to conceptualise parenting support.The last two decades have witnessed a growing attention to parenting issues from a broad range of professional fields: journalism (e.g. Schaubroeck,

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An improved protocol for the preparation of the title compound [PEG(OTs) ] from polyethylene glycol, tosyl chloride, 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) a6d triethylamine is described. PEG(0Ts) reacts+slow;y with D p P to yield, by.a nucleophilic displacement of -OTs, PEZ(DMAP) (OTs ) (DMAP = 4-dimethylamlnopyridinium-1-yl) . PEG (OTs) , heated in E,N-d?imethyl?ormamide, is extensively transformed into -PEG-OC(=d)H. INTRODUCI'IONa-Hydro-w-hydroxypoly(oxyethane-l,2-diyl) of molecular weight up to 20.000 is commonly known as polyethyleneglycol, abbreviated PEG; for emphasis of the hydroxy end groups, the notation PEG(OH)2 may be used. By extension, PEGAZ and APEGB denote PEG derivatives where the hydroxy end groups have been replaced by two A groups, or one A and one B group respectively; the notation -PEGA indicates an A end group, without any implication as to the nature of the second end group. PEG and PEG derivatives are very useful in a wide range of chemical and bioorganic appli~ationsl-~. For many such ends, however, the hydroxy groups of PEG must be converted into another group more suitable to the projected application4. In this connection the electrophilic title compound PEG(0Ts) is of interest because of its reactivity towards various nucleophiles; we report here on our experience with its preparation. LITER&= OVWVIEWThe preparation of PEG (0Ts) has been described several times5-I3. Broadly there are two approaches (Scheme 1). In the first one an excess (relative to PEG) of an amine, such as pyridine5' 6 f 7 or triethylamine8-10 reacts with tosyl chloride (TsC1) to form a reactive intermediate amidium ion e.q., C5H5N+-S02-C6H4CH3, which is then attacked by PEG. In the second approach PEG is first converted by a strong base, e . q . , NaH12, BuLi11r13 to the alcoholate anion PEG(O-)2, which is subsequently reacted with TsC1.

Several new initiatives have been developed by the EPS in order to promote a better inclusion of women in the European physics community, to highlight their pivotal roles in research and teaching, and thereby attract more female researchers among the next generation of scientists. Because a perfect parity has not been reached yet, efforts in guaranteeing fair recognitions and safe careers for women will have to be sustained in the coming years. This is a very challenging task, but this is the pride of the EPS to lead it until its very end.