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'My daughter started dating an older man. Then she left me alone with him.'

Anonymous
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'If you crave the feeling your mums' group gave you, watch this.'

Hannah Mansur
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Why we need to stop calling parenting issues 'seasons'.

Gemma Bath
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'We’ve decided we’re only having one child... it doesn’t stop the comments.'

Stacey Hicks
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OPINION: 'No amount of cherishing your kid now will let you skip feeling melancholy later.'

Claire Zulkey
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Kelley opened her DMs to 'regretful parents.' She was inundated with stories.

Gemma Bath
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Women told us the one thing their dad did that made them close. The answers were unexpected.

Emily Vernem
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'I’m scared of what will happen if I choose to not have kids.'

Emily Vernem
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'When your child has a tantrum in public, there's one thing I want to say to you.'

Kate Brennan
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'My distant, strict parents are now loving, attentive grandparents. It hurts more than I expected.'

Anonymous
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The unspoken politics of playdates (from a 'hot mess' mum of three).

Bek Day
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'My dad went into aged care at 90. What happened next horrified me.'

Nicole Madigan
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'I was reading bedtime stories with a glass of wine. A question from my son stopped me in my tracks.'

Ange Chappel
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'My husband asked me to leave my job to become a stay at home mum, so I asked for half of his company.'

Basmah Qazi
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'My life was the parallel of Ballerina Farm. This is why I'll never be a 'tradwife' again.'

Cassandra Green
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'The cruel "rule" my mother-in-law has when it comes to family photos.'

Bek Day
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'What I really think about my co-workers who have kids.'

Emily Vernem
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'Cool girlies don’t announce the pregnancy.' The baby trend sweeping your socials.

Lisa Hamilton
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'I wrote about struggling to find my "postpartum style". I was flooded with messages.'

Tamara Holland
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The sexist question Katrina Gorry was asked, that we actually need to keep asking.

Gemma Bath
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'To the women worried about going on maternity leave, it'll be the best thing for your career.'

Annaliese Todd
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JESSIE STEPHENS: 'Starting with the flight... Every mistake I made when I took my baby to Europe.'

Jessie Stephens

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MICHELLE BATTERSBY: 'It's been 3 months since I had my baby and it's nothing like I expected.'

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Women told us the one thing their mum did that made them close. They all said the same thing.

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teens

'When my daughter was 13, my clothes started going missing. Then I bumped into a friend at the school.'

Anonymous
school

'My son went to daycare. When I went to pick him up, he was already gone.'

Anonymous
parent opinion

Ariane's baby was just a few months old when the hallucinations started.

Ariane Beeston
pregnancy

'My birth was so traumatic, I discharged myself from hospital against medical advice.'

Emily Mitchell
kids

'My mum is a lovely grandmother. But she's a terrible mum.'

Anonymous
pregnancy

'I made a pros and cons list of having another baby. The cons list is LONNNNG.'

Kelly McCarren
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Diane Foley
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PARENTING CONFESSION: 'I feel so guilty about my close relationship with my stepdaughter.'

Anonymous
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MONTY DIMOND: 'I'm a mum of three boys. Having my third child has pushed me over the edge.'

Monty Dimond
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HOLLY WAINWRIGHT: 'TikTok's tradwives are self-harm for millennial mothers.'

Holly Wainwright
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PARENTING CONFESSION: 'I would prefer to hold my smart phone than hold my baby.'

Nicole Madigan
real life

'I thought my son was smoking weed. He was hiding a much darker secret.'

Anonymous
real life

'My mum abandoned me when I was just one. Now I take care of her.'

Nadia Levett
parent opinion

The silver linings of being a single mum (that nobody talks about).

Annaliese Todd
pregnancy

MICHELLE BATTERSBY: ‘I delayed a baby for my career. Now that I’m pregnant, I want to call out why I hesitated.'

Michelle Battersby
baby

'I refuse to let my mother-in-law hold my baby. My husband is furious with me.'

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