Parenting
Should children pay their parents board?
Rose Beaugeard, 22, has been paying board since she was 18. Once a financial lesson, more parents are charging their children to help with the cost of living.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Parenting expert Justin Coulson on how a spreadsheet helped him find love
“My wife, Kylie, scored 10. We’ve been married for 25 years and I am sickeningly in love with her,” says the co-host of Parental Guidance.
- by Robyn Doreian
What’s better: Online parent-teacher interviews or in-person ones?
More parents can attend online interviews than before, but they also miss out on some in-person cues. Here’s how to get the most out of teacher time.
- by Kimberly Gillan
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Abducted in Japan
‘It’s damaging children’: Japan’s abducted kids call for help at the G7
Victims say the pain the Japanese system causes children “is beyond the description” as they call on G7 leaders to escalate pressure on Tokyo.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Those confusing feelings that first-time mothers get? There’s a word for it
It’s called matrescence, and like adolescence, it’s a pivotal transitional period.
- by Evelyn Lewin
Opinion
Opinion
The $922-a-fortnight handout I left unclaimed – but you shouldn’t
Do I regret not claiming the payment for the short, personally challenging period I could? No, but you should take it if you can.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Mum jokes: Imitation is flattery for TikTok comedians
A generation of young comedians are making it big on social media with spot-on impressions of mothers, enjoyed by mums and their kids alike.
- by Mary Ward
Opinion
Motherhood
Mothers and daughters always share both tenderness and tension
I’m reaching that juncture where a woman starts to think of herself as the sum of all the compromises she’s made. Most days I seethe with a rage I can barely articulate.
- by Julie Szego
Opinion
Affordable housing
How the housing crisis is traumatising our children
We want future generations to be able to afford a home, but the current housing crisis is denying many young Australians the goods of childhood.
- by Luara Ferracioli
Thirty years ago, we started taking bullying in schools seriously. But has anything changed?
Teachers are now more attuned to bullying, and public schools now ask students about it annually. But efforts to curb it have only had a minimal impact, experts say.
- by Christopher Harris
As the premier’s family adjusts to new life, Anna Minns stands with mothers
The wife of the NSW premier will help launch a paper demonstrating the effectiveness of in-the-home support programs for vulnerable new mothers.
- by Mary Ward