(Oh) the shame
Those awful moments, when the buck stops with you. Your free choices. And bugger. Where’s the humour to be human and laugh it off. Not there. Miles away in fact.
Adult conversations
Parental leave deeply sucks in many ways, but it’s far from childish work.
Mum on her phone
UK artist, Charlotte Warne Thomas, got it right. When I’m doing the rudimentary basics of feeding, holding, nose-wiping, de-escalating, I am not making art.
Let’s talk childcare
Let’s get to it. Childcare. Albanese Government’s reforms, all stick no care. Are we surprised?
Get kid. Get fit.
It racks up a significant toll on anyone, and you’re going to want a gatorade and a killer immunity to get through.
Mum vs parent guilt
So, back to the podcast, the cis-male host says: “I had it! I had ‘mum guilt’.” As the primary care giver, he felt guilty for being away from his children while on a boys weekend. It’s parent guilt, the two agree.
OT, how I love thee.
Can we better measure the impact of those doing mothering work. See it. Take interest in it. Applaud it. Who? When? How? That I don’t know. All I know was, I craved it. And no doubt still do.
Toast instead of pancakes
I’ll settle for some things, but inadequate literacy of how to support primary care givers through the late and disrupted nights, is not one.
Matrescence? Or merely maternalism
Finally added to the Cambridge Dictionary in 2022, is raising social awareness and adoption of matrescence all it’s cracked out to be for women empowerment?
Déjà vu: Childcare
Four steps to launch your creative business
Why jumping to tactics is a risky game
Mothers deserve a raise
If mothering is ‘the most important job in the world’, then I’m waiting for the world to show me the money, writes Emma Lang.
Navigating friendship and motherhood
The challenges of navigating friendship and motherhood are deep and far reaching, requiring far more than mere mutual understanding.
Time for a rebrand, charity sector
Charity protests outside Australian Parliament House.
Christmas conversations
Emma and her child for Christmas
Five tips for social media activism
What I learnt from starting my own business
Win the narrative, not just media
Weekly Newsletter
A Sunday column to your inbox with the occasional hot take, and more frequent, average musing from the week. Jotting-down the minefield of mothering as we go about raising two babes. And reflecting on the (far too many) social and economic blahs on the way.
While I’m at it, you’ll have to receive the odd reflection on folk and charities attempting oh so hard to bring about policy and social change. We can all but try. Just the combo you’ve wanted? Hooza.