parenting

A child starting school is a significant milestone, no doubt, but equally it’s an unavoidable rite of passage for kids and parents.  

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.

While the first child improves parents’ mental health, the second child does not. New research confirms second children deteriorate parents’ mental health.

In response to the question of whether women should work The Transformed Wife Facebook page posted a detailed chart plotting the various alternatives.

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.

If the assumption that it is always mum, not dad, that does the parenting isn’t challenged or questioned it will never change.

“Emasculating, embarrassing & unnecessary” is how Piers Morgan describes babycarriers after mocking Bond actor Daniel Craig for wearing one.

‘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’.

Maxine Beneba Clarke pitches a reality TV show where non-parents have to get 3 kids to school without before or after-school care & still work full time.

The ads, cards and images that have been flooding television commercials, catalogues and social media feeds in the lead up to Mother’s Day, in which mums the world over are pampered, tell a single compelling story.

This mother was calm and serene, guiding her school-aged daughter – who was the opposite of calm and serene – through a few afternoon jobs. Her performance was superb parenting personified.

Dannielle Miller is a best-selling parenting author and one of four finalists in the Premier’s Award for NSW Woman of the Year. She shares her tips to help teen girls resolve conflict.