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Work with your kids
Can you get any work done when your kids are around?
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Timesaving tips for running your household
Essential Kids members and full-time working mothers share their tips on how they juggle work, children, and getting everyone up and out the door every morning. On time!
Justine Davies
The relaxed mummy files: The work juggle
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Can you 'have it all' with one child?
Author and mother of one Lauren Sandler says so and she's written an eye-opening new book to prove it.
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Timesaving tips for running your household
Essential Kids members and full-time working mothers share their tips on how they juggle work, children, and getting everyone up and out the door every morning. On time!
The dream of parental free time
A mum considers the amount of free time we are "supposed" to have in a day, comparing the "ideal" schedule to one more of us live by.
Despoja on motherhood, politics and progress
In an interview with Essential Kids about her involvement in the conservation movement, Natasha Stott Despoja also spoke about life after politics and why she would never enter into the toxic environment that is parliament today.
Parents suffering from back to school stress
Working parents endure high levels of stress when it comes to getting ready for their child's return to school, according to a recent study, but there is help available.
How much is a mother worth?
The most obvious flaw in the parenting payment debate.
Working single parents to suffer under new parenting payment
Petra Hilton is doing what the government would like thousands of other single parents to do. She balances raising her son, Tobias, with working 20 hours a week in administration for a food manufacturing company, while studying logistics to carve out a career path for herself within the firm.
Justine Davies
Another dose of (undeserved) guilt
Justine Davies challenges the media reports today that are labelling working parents as guilty of not spending enough time with their children.
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No winners in mummy wars debate
Forget The Hunger Games. A much more brutal and devastating battle is raging - the mummy wars.
Guilt of the working mother
Why this star epitomises the backlash against working mums.
Justine Davies
The relaxed mummy files: The work juggle
For those parents who have to deal with all of the other daily stresses, and work outside the home as well, there’s the extra work stress that gets added into the mix - and the fear that they aren't getting any dowtime just to play with their kids.
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