News & Views Why starting school is when the juggle can become a big struggle If managing the load isn’t shared between parents & if employers and workplaces aren’t accommodating, starting school can be too much.
News & Views The pressure around ‘starting school’ is another stress parents don’t need A child starting school is a significant milestone, no doubt, but equally it’s an unavoidable rite of passage for kids and parents.
News & Views The value of mothers in politics can’t be underestimated It can put people in power that represent a huge and often unheard segment of the population. Let’s celebrate the value of mothers in politics.
News & Views Why I’m ditching the super parent fantasy in 2019 Rob Sturrock spent 2018 trying to be a super parent when he could have just appreciated his mere survival. This year he’s ditching the fixation.
News & Views The problem with Kelly O’Dwyer leaving Canberra Even before I read the reasons that Liberal minister Kelly O’Dwyer was exiting politics I understood. Of course I did. Who wouldn’t?
News & Views Why my goal for 2019 is to have no goals Whether opting for less hustle is a cop out or a stroke of genius remains to be known but I will spend 2019 testing out having with no goal.
News & Views I’m married to a ‘unicorn husband’ and some people can’t cope Neela Janakiramanan is a surgeon with a unicorn husband doing more than his fair share of the unpaid work so she can pursue her career. Others don’t get it.
News & Views Having a second child worsens parents’ mental health: new research While the first child improves parents’ mental health, the second child does not. New research confirms second children deteriorate parents’ mental health.
News & Views Finally! A chart confirms why mums should never work outside the home In response to the question of whether women should work The Transformed Wife Facebook page posted a detailed chart plotting the various alternatives.
News & Views Why it’s time to stop using ‘mum’ as shorthand for ‘parent’ If the assumption that it is always mum, not dad, that does the parenting isn’t challenged or questioned it will never change.
News & Views ‘I wasn’t just sad, I was sick’: Brigid Glanville on her battle with postnatal depression ABC reporter Brigid Glanville shares her experience with postnatal depression with total candour to help people understand the reality of the illness.
Uncategorised An extraordinary year for women as record numbers contest US midterm elections It was said that 2018 would be the ‘year of women’, and next week’s midterms in the United States could be the test of just what that means.