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My Kids Are Not The Problem. Your Expectations Are.
Mothers As A Foghorn For The Family's Needs: Why It's Not As Simple As Telling Fathers To "Step Up"
Reimagining Post-Lockdown Life
Identity Through The Eyes Of A Child
Catching Up Post-Lockdown? 6 questions you can ask new parents before you meet their new baby
Are There Societal Silver Linings To Lockdown?
I’ve often wondered what the effect is of sectioning off age groups is.
At day care and preschool with other under 5s
Primary school with other kids
High school as a teen with teens
Study/early work/travel with other young adults
Work with other adults Then we hit mat leave, caring (largely alone) for someone i…The answers you seek aren’t in your feed
We talked through that scene over and over.
The plane crashing through the doors of the hanger, John Travolta in black hunting down Nicolas Cage in red, bullets flying everywhere.
Miss Two had seen some of the 90s movie Face/Off accidentally, and told me it was “scary”, yet still she asked to watch it again. Instead we talked about it as nauseam, role played, and I cuddled her as we went through it for the fifteenth time.
When we see or experience something at odds with our reality we want to und…
How I "Get So Much Done"
“How do you get so much done?”
I give answers like “well my house just stays filthy” and “I get my ideas in order while mothering then smash them out when I get time”, but really what I want to say is this:
- A lifetime of white, middle class, cis-gender, heterosexual, generally mentally well, neurotypical, sans-physical disability, local family, partnered, non-traumatic life experience-related privilege; and
- My partner parents.
If the first point sounds like you, and you have a partner an…
I knew I’d be tired, I didn’t know I’d be furious.
Support services and resources for expecting, new and experienced fathers.
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www.howisdadgoing.org.au
This is the Dad-specific branch of panda.org.au It includes mental health resources for expecting and new dads, info on how to support one another, and the phone support line for all parents 1300 726 3…
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