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Emily
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Emily Thompson writes the column "The Good Enough Parent" regularly in Orange City Life. www.orangecitylife.com.au

Merry Christmas | The Good Enough Parent

Monday: I open the fridge to get milk for my coffee and realise we’re out of milk. And coffee. And bread. And food in general. I announce we’re having dry cereal for breakfast and stale wraps for lunch. The girls inform me they got up early and...

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Emily Thompson

25 Dec 2024

Letters & Opinion

Penultimate week | The Good Enough Parent

Monday: The week starts well. My beautiful husband spends the day sending me messages of encouragement and telling me I should “do anything to make my dreams a reality”. Unfortunately, this is because I made the mistake of telling him about last...

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Emily Thompson

14 Dec 2024

Letters & Opinion

Confessions part 2 | The Good Enough Parent

Some more confessions from a tired working parent who is barely holding it together at this point: I wrote “who is” because I never know whether to use “who’s” or “whose”. I also avoid “affect” and “effect” because I don’t...

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Emily Thompson

10 Dec 2024

Letters & Opinion

To my baby, on your 16th birthday

Sixteen years ago to the minute I was lying in a hospital bed being induced. Lying there, knowing that really soon I was about to become a mum, I wasn’t scared or worried. I was just so, so excited to finally hold you for the first time. You were...

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Emily Thompson

04 Dec 2024

Letters & Opinion

Confessions | The Good Enough Parent

I recently had a few drinks with friends and after we’d thoroughly discussed which Hemsworth brother we’d leave our husbands for, the topic of conversation turned to “failings”. Now, any parent who gets out of bed in the morning is...

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Emily Thompson

23 Nov 2024

Letters & Opinion

Regrets

The Good Enough Parent >> This week’s column is brought to you by See-Saw Prosecco, poor impulse control, and crippling regret. I truly feel that there should be a national public holiday following Mum’s night out, because parenting while...

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Emily Thompson

16 Nov 2024

Letters & Opinion

The Mental Load

The Good Enough Parent >>> The problem with being a mum isn’t the parenting. Or the housework, or the paid work, the cooking, or what your hair looks like after three pregnancies and having no time in the mornings, or replying nicely to...

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Emily Thompson

10 Nov 2024

Letters & Opinion

Spies

The Good Enough Parent “Hey Mum, if I had a magic wand I’d magic up like 1000 million bucks, and then I’d do kind things for free and go to school by private jet,” says Miss 10 at 7.03 on Monday morning. We live 300 metres from school. I can...

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Emily Thompson

02 Nov 2024

Letters & Opinion

Rule changes | The Good Enough Parent

Going to be honest... it has not been a good week for me because they rearranged my favourite supermarket. The audacity of it. I haven’t made a caramel slice for three weeks because I haven’t found the new location of the brown sugar yet. My...

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Emily Thompson

26 Oct 2024

Letters & Opinion

Term four guide for teachers

Dearest teachers of our town – thank you all for everything you do, and for not reporting me to the authorities in 2016 when my eldest answered “my mum drinks scotch in the bath” to the question “tell me about your mum”. School work coming...

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Emily Thompson

19 Oct 2024

Letters & Opinion

Intensive holidays

I decided to up the difficulty level these school holidays by adding in swimming intensives while also working fulltime. Miss 10 has been lucky enough to have free swimming lessons at school this year thanks to an incredibly generous donor, and she...

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Emily Thompson

12 Oct 2024

Letters & Opinion

How to feed your kids in the holidays (domestic failure edition)

If you’re an Instagram tragic like me, you’ve probably considered cashing in your super to buy snow peas and bocconcini this week so you can make a snack plate social media will approve of. However, as someone who cried in the parking lot of the...

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Emily Thompson

07 Oct 2024

Letters & Opinion

How to get out the door in 32 easy steps (teen/tween edition)

1) Wake up as soon as alarm goes off at 7am. Feel amazing level of organisation and achievement until 15-year-old pokes head into your room and tells you they need to be at school by 8am, and also that your bed-hair looks particularly bad this...

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Emily Thompson

28 Sep 2024