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Three things to look for when choosing who educates your under-fives.

"I had a job as a tutor for a 3-year-old." Let's talk about the new trend in early education.

"Sports carnivals apparently cause 'extreme anxiety'. Kids should still be made to go."

"They don't have to love you." Why being a stepmum is harder than being a mum.

Kristin Wareing

'When my daughter was diagnosed with autism, my own childhood suddenly made sense.'

The 10 questions you should ask your partner to prove he's not sharing the mental load.

'A letter to the father of my kids: This is why our relationship must come to an end.'

"I shared my 'I Don't' list. Now a whole lot of Aussie women are sharing theirs."

Holly Wainwright

“My husband might divorce me once he sees it”: Roxy Jacenko on her new reality TV show.

Octomum Natalie Suleman on the difficulties of raising her son Aidan, who has severe autism.

Jessica Staveley

Five weeks after my C section, I left my husband and became a single parent to twins.

"My friend is fundraising for $500. But it's for her privileged son's birthday present."

'People are always staring.' What it's like being a mum to identical triplet girls.

"For 5 years, I haven't had more than 3 hours uninterrupted sleep. It's affected everything."

Katherine Chatfield

Inside Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen's tumultuous marriage.

Chelsea McLaughlin

"When my son asks why people are staring, I say it's because we're famous. We're not."

Jarrod Lyle's widow on life one year on from losing her husband.

Sex, dating and boyfriends: When your daughter with an intellectual disability grows up.

“His cot was covered in blood.” The reality of having a child with severe eczema.

"My heart aches to be back home." Carrie Bickmore on returning to work after maternity leave.

Billi Fitzsimons

"There have been complaints about your son." I was kicked out of my mothers' group.

'A letter to my grandmother, who stayed married to the man who abused my mum.'

Rebecca took her newborn to the doctor. The next day, all 5 of her children were taken into care.

KAREN'S STORY: "I didn't know eczema and food allergies were linked."

Jacqui McCallum

'It was a meeting and a liking.' Kate Langbroek on how she met her husband of 15 years.

Jessica Staveley

When Jo met Rob on 'Farmer Wants A Wife' they instantly clicked. This is their life now.

The Subaru ad encouraging us to change the way we look at the world.

“I hope a car hits us”. Kate Langbroek on the darkest moments of her son’s cancer diagnosis.

Screen Time

"I was a bad mum": Zoe Marshall on the guilt she felt after complaining about her child to a friend.

A crisis of parenting: What's really going wrong with our kids in 2019.

The grayscale hack that will have your kids handing your phone back.

"How the ‘Momo Challenge’ saved my family."

"The 17-rule contract I made my teenage son sign before giving him a mobile phone."

"He's not allowed anymore": The popular kids' TV show Zoe Marshall has banned in her home.

A dad's brutally genius invention makes it impossible for your teen to ignore your texts.

Jimmy Kimmel's latest viral prank shows the reality of kids and Fortnite.

Billi FitzSimons

Do we need to send kids to a $4000 military-style boot camp to thwart tech addiction?

This homework hack will save your weeknights. All you need is screen-time.

Kate and Will ban devices from their nursery.

"I tried the app that tracks how much time you spend on your phone - and it was confronting."

New guidelines say toddlers should have zero screen time. Here's what you need to know.

The one toy banned from Prince George and Princess Charlotte's playroom.

Jamie Oliver explains how he stops his teens' all night phone binges. All parents will want to listen.

Yumi Stynes on why she goes through her daughters' phones.

What and how should parents be advised about ‘screen time’?

Alicia Blum Ross and Sonia Livingstone

Tech rules kids want their parents to have. And some of us aren't going to like them.

Shauna Anderson

After School Restraint Collapse: It's science's way of validating your kid's arvo meltdown.

'Like a lot of women, I have parental burnout. But I'm also addicted to doing it all.'

"I'd always drank too much. I never thought it would get worse when I had children."

Jada Bennett-Cross

'Last weekend, thousands of families stood in silence on sporting sidelines. And I'm grateful.'

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'I'm part of the epidemic of "toxic" parents who do too much for their kids. But how do I detox?'

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'I was drowning'. Kim gave birth to quints. Now her marriage is at breaking point.

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"When my period was late." 28 women on the moment they decided whether or not to have kids.

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“F*ck the parenting police.” Pink is trolling people who comment on her parenting skills.

"There’s me as a princess." David Campbell believes his 4yo son is Princess Diana reincarnated.

'I was coaching my daughter's soccer team, when two dads verbally abused me.'

Nicola Moriarty

The story of a little girl with autism and her dress that's gone around the world.

'They were scared when you picked them up.' Liz Dunn on raising triplets who are deaf and blind.

What life is really like for the parents of children with special needs once they grow up.

Louisa Simmonds

Lleyton and Bec Hewitt's kids aren't babies anymore. They're all grown up.

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Just 11 of the best things we learnt about tennis legend Roger Federer from his Vogue 73 Questions video.

“Some things do hurt me." Phoebe Burgess has faced the impossible challenge of parenting in the spotlight.

"Feminist, inclusive, and laugh out loud funny." Parents are loving the ABC's Bluey as much as their kids.

Four parents share the time their child's imagination made them laugh out loud.

"It's literally gone." Decades after Michael Hutchence's death, Tiger Lily still hasn't received a cent of her inheritance.

Jessica Staveley

"As a father, I'm grieving for three children who are still alive."

7 parents share their disastrous cake fails because we can't all be Jacinda Ardern.

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