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Don't revisit your mum's mistakes on your kids

Don't revisit your mum's mistakes on your kids

This article originally appeared at The Huffington Post. As the world evolves, so humanity remains essentially emotionally the same. One part angel, one part devil, all of us suffering from the influences of religion, society and our parents.  All of it crystallised in sharp relief within the...
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Mia Freedman: The conversation you need to have with your kids about internet porn thumb

Mia Freedman: The conversation you need to have with your kids about internet porn

Think very carefully before you invite me over for dinner. Because if there’s a...
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Mia Freedman: Are we turning our kids into wussbags? thumb

Mia Freedman: Are we turning our kids into wussbags?

I fear we’re turning into a nation of wussbags. Softies. Princesses. People in need...
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Letter to my husband: I hate you for committing suicide thumb

Letter to my husband: I hate you for committing suicide

Dear Tony, You’re stupid and I hate you and I miss you still and I wish you were...
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Men & childbirth – why they have NO idea thumb

Men & childbirth – why they have NO idea

Okay, so this week like a million people (fine, I exaggerate, a half million) have sent...
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"My husband's been charged with my son's murder but I forgive him" thumb

"My husband's been charged with my son's murder but I forgive him"

"Elijah's drowned. Elijah's gone.'  These are the words that David...
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Why is your front bottom hairy and why is there a mouse in it? thumb

Why is your front bottom hairy and why is there a mouse in it?

We were standing in line at the 10 items or less counter when my child turned to me and...
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Should birthday candles be banned in childcare centres? thumb

Should birthday candles be banned in childcare centres?

I ate a lizard when I was a toddler. Or was it a cockroach? Let's say it was a lizard...
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When the alphabet vomits on a birth certificate thumb

When the alphabet vomits on a birth certificate

This is not a column about children with wacky names. It’s not about the little boy...
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Nothing you worry about really matters thumb

Nothing you worry about really matters

At the birthday party of a ten year old girl, a group of mothers looked on anxiously...
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Sex, drugs and social media. What we need to tell our children thumb

Sex, drugs and social media. What we need to tell our children

If the only thing I told my kids about sex was to use protection, would you think me a...
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This woman has decided not to spend a cent on her child this year thumb

This woman has decided not to spend a cent on her child this year

“Me and my dad went to play beach volleyball which I now know I completely suck at...
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The kind of post that makes mothers laugh (and nod their heads a lot) thumb

The kind of post that makes mothers laugh (and nod their heads a lot)

Here's the thing, before people have kids there are many occasions where they'll...
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"I'm glad my daughter is not like me" thumb

"I'm glad my daughter is not like me"

I have never understood the jubilation people feel over the sporting victories of others...
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You are never failing as a mother thumb

You are never failing as a mother

I’ve gotten a lot of emails from women saying they feel overwhelmed by motherhood....
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9 sounds your kids will never get to hear thumb

9 sounds your kids will never get to hear

Who knew that some noises could eventually become as extinct as the passenger pigeon?...
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