In Defence of the De facto
“So when do you plan on getting married?” “It’s immoral to live with someone before you marry them.” “If he truly loved you, he would marry you.” These are just some of the things I have been told over...
View ArticleSo, you’re thinking of Homeschooling your child?
If you’re thinking about homeschooling your child, odds are that something has happened to help you lose faith in the current schooling options available to you. There are many reasons why a family...
View ArticleI’ll take my body’s eggs fresh and free range, thanks
Let me start out by saying I love science. I love how it blows some things up and makes other things really tiny and how (so far) it’s contributions to zombie apocalypses have yet to eventuate into...
View ArticleEmotional Parenting in the Public Eye
Parenting a child with emotional difficulties in public can be seriously stressful! As suggested by Dr Gottmann, author of Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child, “Much of today’s popular advice to...
View ArticleDiscordia Zine’s first ever competition
We’re excited because we’re holding our first ever competition. Don’t worry, we won’t be making you jump through weird hoops or click and share your way to glory. We’ve got 2 copies of The Public Woman...
View ArticleDeciding whether to medicate a child for behavioural problems
Making the decision to give your child a mind altering chemical is serious business. It’s scary and it is not a decision to be taken lightly. One of the hardest things in trying to reach the decision...
View ArticleTo Smack or not to smack – Should that be the question?
Earlier this year there was some debate about Australia being behind the rest of the world in their attitude and laws regarding smacking children. My initial reaction is that the government and legal...
View ArticleCan a child be racist by nature?
I always thought that tolerance was something children learnt primarily through the behaviours and words of their parents. I wasn’t entirely incorrect in this assumption as I discovered in a great...
View ArticleWhat do rewards systems teach kids? Part 1
Having hinted a couple of times in previous articles about my opinion on reward systems gone mad, I figured it was about time I offered something a little more concrete to show an alternative way of...
View ArticleThe First Day is Always the Hardest
Just after my son was born I kept saying to myself, ‘motherhood does not define me’. I kept saying it to myself while lost in a world of naps, nappies and breastfeeding. I was sure once we got over the...
View ArticleA Word for the Grumpy Dads
I have often wondered at that classic children’s song, “The wheels on the bus.” Everyone seems to know it, and it struck me as interesting that the song had a whole section for “The grumpy Dads on the...
View ArticleChicks in the classroom: Not all it’s cracked up to be
The children squeal and jostle as they compete for a good viewing spot. ‘Ok, boys and girls, do you all remember what to do?’ The question is largely rhetorical. Of course they remember! They have...
View Article‘Mothers’: The Motherhood Monologues
I was recently invited to have a chat with Joy Roberts from Improvising Change, the producer of a new theatre production showing at two venues in Sydney in May 2014 entitled ‘Mothers’. Being a mother...
View ArticleWhat I now know about domestic violence…
When I sit with my girlfriends and look around it really scares me that one in three of us have experienced violence in our lifetime. Most commonly that experience has come from an intimate partner of...
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