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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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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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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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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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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Get-away

Last weekend we did my absolute favourite Orange activity. We packed up the car and left for three days. I’ve been in Orange for over 13 years and – while we love it here and it’s been a beautiful place to raise babies, experience country...

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