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Parenting Opinion

MAY 2022

LEIGH CAMPBELL: The joy and the heartbreak of having one child.
'Teachers already have demanding jobs. So why do we expect them to send us daily updates of our kids?'
"Never have you tried to change her." An open letter to my 11-year-old's teacher.
'My biggest fear when we moved to America was school safety. Now I'm terrified.'
'The truth is, I didn't love the baby phase. And I'm not ashamed to admit it.'
"It caused many sleepless nights." We need to talk about the cost of daycare in Sydney.
'I'm a mum of two kids under five, and these are the things I did and didn't spend money on.'
'I completely disagree with how my partner parents our kids. What should I do?'
"How the hell do parents make this work?" The unspoken truth about sick kids and childcare.
'I don't know how we survived without them.' My in-laws saved my sanity.
"It's an ongoing battle of starts and stops." The double-edged sword for mums who work from home.
"I needed space desperately." Why going back to work has made me a better mum.
'Don't hate me, but I really loved childbirth. Here's why.'
'You never would've believed me.' Why no one tells you the truth about motherhood.
"They won't like you all the time." The 5 things no one tells you about raising teens.
'Will she grow up feeling lonely?' What it's like raising an only child as a single mum.
'Telling us to get over it is unhelpful.' We need to talk about the mother guilt load.
'My 10-year-old had COVID twice in three months. Here's how the new close contact rules impacted us.'
'I had my two kids six years apart. Five years later, this is what I've learnt.'
'I lost my mum to a heart attack when I was 13. This is how I feel on Mother's Day.'
'I don’t know how to be a good mum because I haven’t seen it myself.'
'I go through life with a giant hole in my heart.' The taboo of being a mother who loses a child.
"I didn’t have an impressive career or kids and I felt lost." How I found myself after 40.
'The pandemic made flexible work possible. So why is it still considered a women's issue?'
Parenting a 2-year-old can be… challenging, but it can also be the best age for precisely 10 reasons.