This morning I found myself shouting at my radio. This doesn't happen very often but in my defence, I was provoked. The target of my shouting was federal Labor minister... [read more]

How did your parents choose what school to send you to? And if you have school age children, how did you make the same decision? Did your parents get it right? Did... [read more]

Thank heavens I’m not a straight man. Because then I might have to spend my life in intimate relationships with women and lord knows, sometimes we are nuts. I’ll... [read more]

Do you? The trend for hyphenated surnames seem to have died out and my anecdotal evidence would suggest more women are taking their husband's surnames. The name... [read more]

Lisa* writes When I was growing up in the 70s, 80s and 90s, it was a given that friends' parents were called Mr and Mrs.  That's just what we were taught by... [read more]

According to a report in UK's Daily Mail... The majority of teenagers in a survey said they felt damaged by the effects of their mother's dieting and views... [read more]

So many amusing things happen in the space of a week that I keep meaning to share but somehow don't find the right opportunity. I thought we might see how this works... [read more]

You spend a lot of time in your teens, twenties and even early thirties trying not to fall pregnant. And then, when you're ready to get knocked up, it often... [read more]

You learn some interesting things at the beach. For example, this summer I learned that many girls have tattoos. Wait, I shouldn’t say girls because that’s... [read more]

Like many, blogger Zoey Martin had grand plans about the type of parent she would be. And then she had children. She writes... It's so easy to have parenting... [read more]