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Elka Whalan
Elka Whalan (nee Graham) spent the best part of a decade at the top of Australian swimming. A dual Olympian, she won Olympic silver in the 4 x 200m Freestyle relay in Sydney and has 10 Australian and numerous Commonwealth records under her belt. Since announcing her retirement after the 2006 Commonwealth Games Elka has forged a successful media...
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Elizabeth Gilbert
You might have read Elizabeth Gilbert's mega-best-selling 2006 travelogue, Eat, Pray, Love, pre-kids. But if not, you've probably come away wondering how you connected so well to a woman whose life at the time couldn't have been more different than yours. While you swept up Coco Pops, she was busy being swept off her feet in Bali by the courtly B...
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Jennifer Garner Caught Lying! (Video)
Scandal! Wait. Not scandal. Jennifer Garner is promoting her new file The Invention of Lying and in this video (below) she talks about the white lies in her own life — namely those that are parent-centric....
Arts & Culture
Consume Less, Live Better
You may have noticed that green is the new black when it comes to raising babies these days. A swing back to cloth nappies and wooden toys shows that parents are starting to question the impact their families are making on the environment. Journalist and yoga teacher Debbie Hodgson (pictured right) has written a guide for parents keen to move to...
Arts & Culture
Let’s Talk About God
They say you should never talk about religion or politics at the dinner table, but Mark Macleod wants to bring God back to kid's bookshelves. The author of a new children's picture book, God Is, Macleod turned his hand to writing after a successful career as a publisher and lecturer in children's literature. He was raised as a Presbyterian but turn...
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5-Minute Time Out: Ziggy Marley
There is no bigger name in reggae than "Marley," and Ziggy, son of Bob, is holding up the family moniker with pride. He's won four Grammy awards and released two hugely popular albums. But perhaps more important to grade-schoolers, he also sings that jammin' theme song on PBS?s Arthur, and did the voice of Ernie, the Rasta jellyfish in the movie...
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Michael Lewis & Tabitha Soren
When Michael Lewis's new parenting memoir, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, arrived in the office, we snatched it up. The author of the glorious baseball book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2004), and the prophetic Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (1990), is one of America's leading non-fiction w...
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5-Minute Time Out: Dr. Penelope Leach
As anyone who's tried to balance a career with a family knows, what we do is practically impossible. That we manage to get it done: raise our children, keep our jobs, is a miracle owing much to our do-or-die spirit, and very little to a culture that pays lip service to the family while making it extremely hard to take care of one, especially in...
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