Category Archives: Parenting

Secrets Revealed: What Your Year 12 Student Doesn’t Want You to Know about their HSC preparations

The Higher School Certificate (HSC) and International Baccalaureate (IB) are high-stakes sets of exams for final year high school students in Australia. In NSW, those exams start in a little over five months, although all school-based assessments are scheduled to be completed within the next 5 – 6 weeks. As parents of HSC students, you want to ensure your child

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Be Present: Our Physical Life is Not a Dress Rehearsal

Life is an extraordinary journey filled with countless experiences. The physical life is not a dress rehearsal; It’s the main event. The one and only chance we have to live fully, authentically, and passionately. So why do we dismiss so effortlessly, the importance of embracing the present moment. Do we not realise the impact it can have on our lives…?

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Your Bully Has A Name: Relational Aggression in NSW Schools

Relational aggression is a form of bullying that can have a significant impact on a student’s well-being and academic performance. Teacher-to-Student relational aggression can take many forms, including: verbal abuse, exclusion, and humiliation. In NSW primary schools, where teachers may have a greater influence on the school culture and social dynamics, it is crucial to address teacher-to-student relational aggression effectively and the P&C can play an important role.

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What’s the true cost of Marriage Equality?

This is one of the best interviews I’ve ever seen. Great depth in storytelling, empathy with subject and not surprisingly, it got me thinking… What does it cost to enable people who love each other to marry? Rightly or Wrongly: Judgement is a human and societal default  Modern western society judges a woman’s worth by two things: her ability to get married

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Embarrassing Bodies

My husband is head chef in our house. During my pregnancy, I ate like the Wallaby tight five during the off season. The first three months after our daughter was born, I was breastfeeding (or expressing) every couple of hours. Not surprisingly, my appetite was nothing short of voracious. Somewhere between three and four months, we organically reverted to a ‘working day’ routine,

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Self aware celebrity #NeverTooLate

Posting a photo of yourself four weeks post partum carrying the comment ‘I’m finally getting my stomach back’ is a new mum’s post of excitement. After playing host for 9 months then fulfilling the roles of: dedicated milk bar, cleaner, general slave to any and every need of your newborn, a mum is entitled to get excited about getting a little of

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