WHAT IS THE OPTIMUM TIME FOR MATERNITY LEAVE?

June 17, 2015August 22, 2017Maria Comment

I wrote the below post two years ago and while the issue of paid parental leave seems to have dropped off the political [...]

FAMILY TRADITIONS

May 25, 2015March 10, 2016Maria 4

Do you have any? There is so much literature out there about the importance of families sitting down to have dinner together. The [...]

April 30, 2015Maria Comment

These are the desperate words that came from Myuran Sukumaran’s mother, Raji. Apart from all the arguments put forth against the use of [...]

March 27, 2015March 26, 2015Maria 2

It’s Saturday night (okay, last Saturday night) and I’m sitting outside the movies while my daughter and her friends are inside getting their [...]

March 16, 2015March 10, 2016Maria 2

This is the book you read when you don’t want to go on a guilt trip about your parenting. This is the book [...]

November 24, 2014March 10, 2016Maria Comment

There’s a sense of anticipation in my household at the moment. Most of it mine. Next year child no. 2 starts high school [...]