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Parenting meltdowns and.. twins
I know I’ve only just talked about him (Looky Daddy!) and it is too soon to be plugging his blog again, but I have a total weakness for parents writing about their meltdowns and this post is beautiful, as all grimly honest and tender posts abou...
Fatherhood
Take this boy. Add ten years and a kid. And you get them. By the time she’s old enough to be quizzing us on our misspent youth we’ll be so straight she won’t even believe what we tell her. Probably a good thing.  P.S. Love...
Poetry
Us who have delayed motherhood until our thirties and beyond are sometimes in the strange position of bearing our children while simultaneously caring for ageing parents. This poem is a guest post from Kitty, and it was written during her time ofÂ...
I didn’t choose to be an uptight anti-sex prude, it chose me
So once again a toy manufacturer has put out a doll that has me siding with “the outraged Christian groups”. And yet I had a pretty hedonistic youth before I became a parent, and I enjoyed it, and I hope to experience a little more hed...
I like to think of my maternity leave as The Year I Programmed Someone’s Brain
The paid maternity leave debate is dominated by labour supply considerations - that is, parents returning to the workforce as quickly and reliably as possible. What we hear very little of in this debate is how worthwhile maternity leave (or parenta...




