Parenting 2
SEPTEMBER 2019
Up at 4:30am and no date nights: We need to talk about tag-team parenting.
'I'm trying to be worthy.' The disarming reality of parenting a special needs child.
"Shut up, close your mouth and push." We need to talk about women's experiences of obstetric violence.
'Great pay and 12 weeks holiday.' An open letter about what a teacher really does in a day.
'As women, we're fed a friendship myth about life after babies. For many of us, it's a complete lie.'
After 9 years together, Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan split in 2018. This is their lives now.
"It'd suck to be this woman's kid." A mum made her son's friends sign a 'sleepover contract'.
'The world will always call them 'the twins'." What no one tells you about having twins.
"At just 28 years old, my daughter Kirby was suddenly unable to talk or move."
Constance Hall is sick of being called a "smelly b*tch". She's reclaiming the Internet for the bullied.
"I had to strip him completely." Just 5 parents on the embarrassing place their kids pooped.
'I asked a teacher what she thought of my parenting. She told me... the truth.'
'When I rejected my ultra-religious upbringing, my parents rejected me.'
"I took my six-year-old daughter to meet a stranger in an Asian prison."
Hilaria Baldwin has broken the unspoken rule of pregnancy: Don't announce it too early.
"No 13 year-old should be dancing in lingerie.” A dad's concern for Insta-famous daughter.
Caity, 25, put her sore back and cramps down to exhaustion. She was 35 weeks pregnant.
'We need to fight for our children.' An urgent plea from a parent turned climate activist.
Kelley just wanted to send her daughters to a better school. She ended up in jail.
“You’re the most ungrateful little sh*t!” Yesterday, I knew I had to dob in my friend's mean nanny.
'I needed to find my identity again beyond "mother." That's the real reason I went back to work.'
5 things I learned when my daughter got braces at 15.
"When mum gets up in the middle of the night, you get up." One dad's very real advice for new fathers.
'My post calling out lazy dads was read by women all over the world. Clearly, it needed to be said.'
ANONYMUM: 'I fake my son’s "nude food" lunch box and I'm not even sorry.'
"He's far from an adult in reality." What life is like when your child with autism grows up.
'I thought a new baby would heal our toxic relationship. Three months later, he left us.'
'When I gave birth, my family were "too tight" to buy presents for me and my newborn.'
Anonymum: "I love my kids, but here are 10 things I loathe about parenting."
"I've always let my son have 'mental health days', because emotional health is as important as grit."
Mangayamma tried to fall pregnant for more than 50 years. At 74, she gave birth to twins.
"I feel like an imposter." Four mums on the guilt of finding motherhood easy.
'We needed emotional support': What it's like to raise a teenager with autism.
'Please, don't be afraid to ask how our son died. We heal in small bits talking about it.'
"I had to draw the line." 4 mums on the time they fought with friends over parenting styles.
"Hug your kids." 'Workaholic' dad's tragic letter after his 8-year-old son died suddenly.
Gro-To Review: Little people tried Zoe Foster Blake's new Gro-To kids bath and body range.
To the store manager yelling at my 18-year-old son who lives with autism.
Months of isolation and no visitors: Inside the newborn parenting trend of 'cocooning'.
Rhiannah has the birth story no one wants to hear. It involves a 'fourth degree tear'.
Shortly after Caitlin fell into a coma, she gave birth to a baby girl.
'She doesn't know I know.' Sophie Cachia discovered a friend was her biggest troll.
'After 5 years of teaching, I left the profession. No amount of money would get me back.'
"Toilet training is... exhausting." 11 parents on what it's really like raising twins.
‘It seems so unnecessary’: The politics of the second baby shower.
'It's like leaving them in a car.' The dangers of covering your baby's pram with a cloth.
"She did a poo... on the pathway." 17 parents share their most WTF toddler moments.
Nadia Bartel and why we always blame the woman when there's rumours of cheating.
Ignore the headlines. Because no, C-sections do NOT cause autism.
"Kiss the nearest girl": My son is only six and I'm dealing with the beginnings of consent.
"It's not a school's job to teach your children resilience. Teachers are busy enough already."
Sophie Cachia announces split: "We are merely a case of two kids who fell in love hard early."
If you've got a baby on the way, these 9 simple swaps will make your home more natural.
4 actually useful tips for going back to work, post-baby.
According to The Midwife Mumma, there are two types of partners in the birthing suite.
8 of Australia's most well-known dads share their best parenting advice.
OPINION: Dear mums, please stop faking your "hot mess parenting."
'I got married and pregnant at 18 because my boyfriend said he was dying from cancer. He wasn't.'
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