How to cook for your kids for years without resentment or burnout. — I’ve cooked for my family almost every day for the last 21 years. My husband doesn’t like cooking and isn’t interested in it. My two sons were never interested in cooking either. It wasn’t something they were drawn towards. We had some fun times cooking a few batches of biscuits and pancakes when they were young, but they never wanted to explore further.

When you’re raising a child, society expects you to take on a certain role as a parent. I found many of the expectations and responsibilities that came with being a conventional “good mother” extremely stressful. Especially since my eldest child just wouldn’t cooperate with the role of “good boy.” He…

I used it as an opportunity to unlearn the power of words. — “You f**king b!tch.” These were the words I heard multiple times a day from one of my dear sons. I can laugh about it now. I wasn’t laughing at the start. When these words first started coming from his lips I was challenged. Very challenged. I got upset. …

When we fight with them in the toy store, we don’t stop to think what we’re really teaching our children — Money is a big, scary topic for so many of us. It can be confronting to notice our beliefs around money and resources (and the lack thereof) and how we are passing these on to the next generation. At a certain point when my two sons were young I became…

Are you sitting on the fence, not knowing which way to go in your parenting journey? Maybe you’ve been doing all the “attachment parenting” things with your young child, but it’s all become much harder now that they’ve grown a will of their own and are asserting it? …

It’s the evening of Mother’s Day, I’ve got two grown sons and neither of them have spoken to me today. My eldest son who is 21 lives in a nearby city and my youngest, now 17 still lives at home, although mostly in his bedroom. It’s clear that they either…

There are few things more challenging than angry meltdowns or tantrums. I used to get really freaked out by them. What do I mean by “angry meltdown”? I’m talking about an explosion of intense emotion that may include hitting, swearing and screaming. …

To spend time in the Australian Outback is to bathe in magnificence and devastation. I’ve just returned from a 3000 kilometre journey from the east coast of NSW to the far north western corner of the state and back again. Once you’re over the Great Dividing Range the inland landscape…

My kids are out of control. They always have been. They always will be. Out of MY control that is. They’ve grown into young adults now, so of course they’re out of my control. But they were out of my control when they were 3, and 7years old too. Does…