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20 things to say to your daughter before she's grown

20 things to say to your daughter before she's grown

I always wanted to have daughters -- and I got them. I love every minute of it, from the tea parties and pedicures to what we affectionately (mostly) call the "hair wars" in our house. But I'd be lying if I said it was easy. From a very young age our girls are targeted with...
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8 things I REALLY want to say to my kids thumb

8 things I REALLY want to say to my kids

(Attention: If this is the first post of mine you've ever read you might think I'...
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Why no-one intervened when a child was nearly abducted thumb

Why no-one intervened when a child was nearly abducted

  Last week, iVillage posted the ‘heart-stopping’ story of the near...
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Cute apology letters from kids thumb

Cute apology letters from kids

An Adelaide mum took a photo of her 9-year-old son's apology letter to his brother and...
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Mums share: "I knew my child had autism when..." thumb

Mums share: "I knew my child had autism when..."

While it can take time to get an autism diagnosis, parents often have a sense earlier...
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Who is this stranger living in my house? thumb

Who is this stranger living in my house?

I have a dream that I am looking at a baby. He is mine, all wrapped up in a blanket on a...
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Caught on camera: 2y/o breaks into his sister's room thumb

Caught on camera: 2y/o breaks into his sister's room

It's an after-hours burglary plot to rival anything the Mission Impossible writers...
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The best place to talk to teens so they'll really listen thumb

The best place to talk to teens so they'll really listen

My house is filled with women. Don’t get too excited, my wife and I have three...
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What to do when your tween boy wants to hold your hand thumb

What to do when your tween boy wants to hold your hand

My sweet amazing baby boy is now a tween. You know, that stage where mums are not quite...
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Would this make a teenager use contraception? thumb

Would this make a teenager use contraception?

The best way to prevent teen pregnancy is to educate teens.
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The video games I won't let my children play thumb

The video games I won't let my children play

When something horrible happens, we struggle to put a "why" to it. And, sadly,...
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The letter teenage girls wish they could write to their dads thumb

The letter teenage girls wish they could write to their dads

This letter written from a teenager's perspective to her dad is an extract from Steve...
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17 OMG tricks parents played on their kids thumb

17 OMG tricks parents played on their kids

Just because you are a parent doesn't mean you aren't a kid at heart. Check out...
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The 12 lessons I've learned from my son thumb

The 12 lessons I've learned from my son

My only son recently turned 12. It's pretty old when I think about how quickly it...
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Would you pay your child to do this? thumb

Would you pay your child to do this?

Does your kid spend more time interacting with her friends via social media than she does...
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School excursions to Athens? Have parents gone mad? thumb

School excursions to Athens? Have parents gone mad?

When I was a kid, we went to Canberra on a school excursion. We explored the Australian...
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