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What We Watched Last Night
Post-Natal Depression On Insight (SBS)
Wow. What a good show. Through all the tears (both mine, as a viewer, and the speakers in the Insight studio), Coping With A Baby is the best thing I've seen on Australian telly since The Librarians. But it wasn't a laugh. Far from it. Gripping? Yes. Poignant? Indeed. Will it strike a chord with many women - or, rather, people affected by...
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What We Wish Being A Parent Was Like…
We were just talking about how Hollywood can really sanitise and saccharin-ise the hell out of being a mum or a dad - and how, growing up with fairytales as most of us did, we really want to believe that the Tinsel Town version of parenthood is real. That it's true. That it really can be like that, all big houses and sunny days and funny, wise-crac...
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The Grit and the Glamour
I get to class and take my seat beside the other girls, and as usual, they are better dressed than I am. One wears skinny jeans and a shrunken black T-shirt; another wears a short denim mini and razor-flat, arch-destroying sandals. A third wears a stunning print dress. I sigh and wish I had taken the time to find matching socks. I'm used to being l...
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Survey Time: What Happened To Your Sex Life After Kids?
Feminist editor/writer/researchers Jennifer Baumgartner and Amy Richards want to know if/how your sex life changed after you had kids, and they’ve made a short little anonymous survey to ask you about it. But they left out a few key questions. They say they modelled the questions after Betty Friedan’s 1957 survey of Smith college alumni that...
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