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As kids returned to school this week I could feel the sense of relief in the air and it caused me to once again question how full-time working parents manage child minding in the school holidays.
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Negotiating money and finances in a new relationship is tricky enough, but doubly so when you have dependent children to bring into the mix.
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For eight years, the Zammit twins arrived at work an hour early so they could be home in time to pick their children up from school – freeing their working wives to get them off to school.
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