Parenting can be a lonely, bumpy road. It’s a struggle to feel like you’re doing…
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“We learnt about positive and negative emotions at school today,” my 10-year-old told me recently.…
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Lucy is a friend of mine and her mum used to make this truly fab…
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Finding fashion for tween girls can be hard! They’re in a wonderful stage of life…
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Are you like me – a discarded parent looking for ideas on how to bond…
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Oyakodon is the kind of meal you make once and then have on high rotation…
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I don’t like Mother’s Day. There, I’ve said it. You can disagree with me if you like, and in fact I’d love you to! Because even though we have this one thing…
At the risk of sounding like I’m writing an 1800’s manual for housewives, I quickly…
How would you describe an average teenager? For most people, the following characteristics might come…
When you’re a kid, making friends is really easy. Friendships pop up in the playground, at the slippery dip, in the check out line. Four years ago, my girls made lifelong friends…
The first thing my boys do when they walk in the door is create a school bag minefield in the middle of the hallway. Then they head straight into the kitchen, open…
There are many commercial first period kit boxes around these days. Which I find quite…
My son is the master of the teen meltdown. To be honest, he was also…
Hmmm, muesli cookies. Is it wrong that ‘cookie’ has entered this Australian’s lexicon? It’s just that some ‘biscuits’ are most certainly ‘cookies’. Pretty much anything large and free-form, and definitely anything rocking…
“Happy children are all alike; every unhappy child is unhappy in its own way.” With respect to Mr Tolstoy, I can’t think of a better way to summarise why it’s so hard parenting a…
