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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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Down The Screen Time Rabbit Hole
My eleven-year-old’s face once shone with bright ideas and a willingness to engage with the world around her. Now, if I see her face at all, it’s illuminated with an eerie fluorescent glow... She got a mobile phone for her…
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Isn’t it time we tried a little kindness?
As she skipped up the gully after a busy day at school, she paused to play with your son. After a few moments of laughter, she carried on, hopping on one foot after the other waiting for me so we…
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The Truth About Birthday Parties
It’s when the biscuit dough turns out to be much too sticky for all those little party guests that I realise I too am in a bit of a sticky muddle... It’s right in the middle of my baby girl’s…
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Why is it so hard to get a breastfed baby to take a bottle?
Let me start by saying how happy I am, and how lucky I feel that I've been able to breastfeed both my babies. I know lots of people who want to and can't for whatever reason and I loved it…
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Why I’m Dodging Toy Unboxing Videos
They're fun, they're bright, they're all over YouTube and they are big business: yes, I'm talking about the very strange world of unboxing videos. These are homemade videos of children and grown-ups (with weird child-like voices and hairy arms), opening…
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The Motherload Book Club’s Top Reads of 2019
In this, The Motherload Book Club’s second year, I’ve read and listened to almost one hundred books. And when it came to narrowing them down to ten, I completely failed. So here’s my top fourteen (in alphabetical order by title).…
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The First Time
Becoming a first-time mum is memorable for a whole host of reasons – and not all of them good. There’s the shellshock of sleep-deprivation, haywire hormones, coming to terms with your body being changed beyond all recognition...but there’s also something…