Dr Sam Tormey looks at Australia’s obesity crisis and offers ways for families to keep their weight in check. What sort of world would you wish to await a newborn baby in 2020? Safe? Nuclear-free? Peaceful? How about ‘fattening’? What are parents to make of the...
For Linda McIver, the culture and character of a school trumps its academic reputation every time. We have a remarkable primary school. It’s not just “our daughter’s school” – it’s ours, and that tells you something about the atmosphere. We were pretty sure about this school...
It’s time to kill the outdated platitudes around what it takes to be the perfect mother. Or at least tune out their noise.
Even self-professed exercise junkie MJ Ong struggles to keep up her regimen with a baby in tow. I’m not your average postgraduate student. On the first day of my doctorate course I was eight weeks pregnant. Ironically, my research is on pregnancy and exercise. I was...
Anne-Maree Brown's instincts saved her daughter’s life....
Kris Bordessa’s sons have a tendency towards truncation in their communication The bright, bold colours of billboards and street signs intrigued my oldest son, Brad, long before he could read. “What does that say, Mum?” he’d ask from the back seat as we whizzed down the...
Despite years of research, Lara Silko discovers you can never pre-determine what type of parent you will become When I was doing my psychology honours research in the mid-1990s as a fresh-faced 20-something, parenting looked pretty simple. I learned it could be conceptualised along two lines:...
Try this stunning 15 minute recipe from Jamie Oliver Ingredients Salad: 50g cashew nuts 1 tbsp sunflower seeds 2 tbsp sesame seeds 200g fine rice noodles 1 romaine lettuce 1 large carrot 1 bunch of radishes ½ a cucumber 1 big bunch of fresh coriander 3 spring...
Michaela Fox encourages mothers to trust their instincts more and listen to others less. It’s a predictable script: you become a mother and sentence yourself to a lifetime of guilt – or so it appears. I overheard a conversation between two mothers at the park recently,...
Kate King waxes lyrical about bygone times, before realising she is a different person now she is a mother. One night recently our children gave my husband and me a rare and unexpected treat: they were asleep by 7 pm. As we gently pulled their bedroom...
