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Parenting 200
Baby’s First Haircut
A beautiful Sunday summer’s morning in Australia… blue skies, cool breezes and the sounds of cicadas and kookaburras fill the air. My partner and I discuss how to ...
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Healthy diet 296
Food and Society’s ‘Way of Eating’ – How True is it Really?
Food is necessary, that there is no doubt about, BUT how many of us have ever stopped to consider how and why we eat the way we do? ...
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Communication 310
Mobile Phone, the Screen that Screams for Attention… Observation from a University Student
In the last couple of weeks I have found myself feeling quite surprised by the amount of time that mobile phones consume my – and many other of ...
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Global Issues 348
The Evil in War
The dictionary’s definition of war is “a state of armed conflict between different countries, or different groups within a country.” (1) The word ‘war’ comes from the old ...
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Relationships 334
Sex and Intimacy – a Journey of Understanding
For many years in our marriage relationship there was very little true intimacy between my husband and I as we know and feel it today, although at the ...
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Global Issues 281
Judgement, Acid Attacks and Lack of Love for Others
In the world today there are many different ways people live; whether it be their financial, educational, religious or health choices that differ, for each individual how they ...
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Relationships 406
Relationship Ripples
Who would have thought that relationships and their ripples would have such a profound impact on life, everywhere? Relationships present an opportunity to evolve in one’s own relationship, ...
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Parenting 485
Staying Vulnerable
Recently my eight year old son has gone through some changes – one such change being that he no longer shies away from his vulnerability like he used ...
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Male Relationships 318
From My Love for Men
Ever since I can remember, I have always been surrounded by men. Before the age of around 11 most of my friends were boys, from the ones with ...
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Couples 532
I found my Mr Right Online and we are Building our Relationship
I had been a member of a few online dating sites for a few years, searching for Mr Right. I chatted to a number of men, but they ...
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Global Issues 347
Media Mayhem
While watching some footage on Hurricane Irma wreaking its havoc through the Caribbean and the USA in September 2017, the television broadcasters were lamenting that the radio broadcasters ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 323
Cigarette Smoke – What was it Telling Me?
Growing up with Smoking It seems on looking back over my lifetime of more than 76 orbits of the sun, and through much of my developing years, everyone ...
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Family 373
No Passport required: making Relationships about Love
Relationships are precious. There is the potential in each relationship to reflect back to us an aspect of the puzzle we are all here on earth to piece ...
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Family 502
Family Is More Than Blood
When I first heard the saying ‘family is more than blood’, it felt like a relief because as much as I love and care for my family there ...
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Parenting 428
Boy to Man: Our Roles as Mothers
I am a parent, a female parent. I have a son and a daughter. I am married and my husband and I share many of the parental responsibilities ...
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Sexism 499
Being a Man – Through the Eyes of a Woman
I have met many men in the 67 years of this life. Some have come into it for a moment or two, some for a little longer and ...
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Sexism 605
‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’ is perhaps One of the Biggest & Most Damaging Lies in History
For most of my life I have bought into a myth of such magnitude that it is impossible to either calculate or fathom the sum total of its ...
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Parenting 376
Parenting my First Child – Flying Blind or Creating my Own Road Map
Having children, parenting, the whole family equation, was not something I had given a lot of thought to, so when we had our daughter it was very much ...
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Parenting 501
Boundaries and Consequences when Parenting: Do we Need them?
Children can be very cute, adorable, loveable and gorgeous, all knowing, extremely observant, and often one step ahead of us. So when it comes to raising children there is ...
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Exercise & Sport 446
Playing Ball with Children’s Needs!
Recently I took a group of children for some ball games at a school holiday activity club. The activity was informal and all about play. In this session ...
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Healthy Lifestyle 330
Are all Children the Same: Do they all Need to be Parented the Same?
Having had three children, all very different in every single way, with absolutely no similarities even in their looks, it didn’t take me long to discover that what worked for one did not ...
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Sexism 448
Men are only after one thing
From the moment a baby boy is born he is only after one thing. Maybe his parents will cradle him in their arms and hold him to their ...
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Parenting 403
#Parenting @ the Technological, #Socialmedia World
Parenting today is a completely different ball game to parenting 20 years ago. Today we have the advance of the technological era in the mix: Snap chatting, Instagram, ...
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Relationships 530
Sea Change
A ‘sea change’ in the modern-day sense is where a person moves from a city or urban location to experience life in a more rural or seaside (hence ...