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The Mental Load is Leaving Us Exhausted and Burnt Out. Can We Finally Break the Cycle?
Frankly, we're at our limit: but can we really get the balance we desperately need? Absolutely, says Kate Dyson
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The Motherload: Why DO Women Traditionally Carry the Burden of The Mental Load?
How does history - and society - contribute to our current 'mental load' that we carry?
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The Motherload: Understanding and Managing the Mental Load
Can women really manage the 'the motherload' - the invisible mental burden of managing the family and household?
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Five Parenting Phrases That Need to be Banned
Becoming a parent is not only a revelation in terms of learning how to keep a small squishy thing alive, learning how to function on little to no sleep and learning how to stop caring if your clothes have another…
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Addicted to Lists
If there's one thing which never fails to anchor me to reality, it's a list. When life is a crazy old whirl of commuting, working, keeping humans alive, doing school admin for two entire children, helping run The Motherload community…
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Invisible Labour: When There’s No-one To Share The Load
A recent study reported in the Independent which focuses on the ‘emotional responsibility’ of being a mother has revealed that, ‘while more men do housework and childcare than used to in the past, women are continuing to manage the household…