christmas

It can be a recipe for disaster bringing together families at Christmas, but it doesn’t have to be, writes Rachael Robertson.

Working while you’re supposed to be unwinding can negatively impact your relationships and wreak havoc on your mental health. 

Women are fastidiously working behind the scenes to make Christmas-time special for their loved ones, often at the cost of their own sanity.

The allure of maximising productivity at all times is tempting but there is more to work and life, than ‘productivity’ which is why I’m saying no more.  

Climate change is shaping as a likely topic of conversation at the family dinner table this Christmas. We can learn much from Greta Thunberg.

Women take on more paid work while shouldering a disproportionate load of housework and this is never more pronounced than at Christmas.

Share the Dignity’s It’s In The Bag initiative is about delivering a package to homeless women and girls on Christmas Day to remind them they matter.

Five years ago I bought a fancy dress costume online in the hope that it would make its way from the UK to my home in the two weeks before the party.

As we get ready to finish another year at the childcare centre and watch the next wave of children getting ready to go off to big school, I am overwhelmed by the gratitude and love that exudes from parents.