News & Views Men can do emotional labour. Really. My husband is proof of male capability in the domestic sphere, including in the realm of emotional labour. It can be done.
News & Views The 5 words women need to start hearing: ‘It’s ok to be childfree’ For the women who don’t – or can’t – have children, there is a socially ingrained stigma attached to not being a mother. It’s something we need to change.
News & Views ‘How I’m lowering the bar’: Notes from a reformed ‘super parent’ Earlier this year father of two Rob Sturrock wrote that he was abandoning his aspirations to be a super parent. He reflects on how he’s tracking.
News & Views I’ve worked part-time for more than a decade & I want more men to do it too My decision way back in 2007 to start working part-time surprised some people. But it’s one of the best decisions I ever made.
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 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 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 The double juggle: how working parents manage school holidays and their jobs The amount of leave employees get doesn’t match school holidays and for working parents the summer school break can be challenging, stressful and expensive.
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 Piers Morgan mocks Daniel Craig for wearing a baby carrier. And he’s not even joking. “Emasculating, embarrassing & unnecessary” is how Piers Morgan describes babycarriers after mocking Bond actor Daniel Craig for wearing one.
News & Views ‘I am doing everything & you need to do more’: A universal household dispute? ‘Basically my husband and I have the same argument on a four week rotation. It reaches a point where I say ‘I doing everything, you need to do more’.