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Post-Baby Self Esteem: How I Regained Confidence After Having a Baby

I was never one of those women with a ‘maternal instinct’. Whilst I was good with kids, the odd, brutal truth was I neither liked kids nor wanted any of my own. Much like Margaret Cho, who once joked...

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My Story: 3 Unexpected Things I Learned as a New School Parent

  When my eldest son finally started school around the age of four, I felt as though I’d been promoted to the new position of School Parent. It was an unexpectedly challenging role, one without...

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My Story: Beginning My Journey With a Special Needs Child

Ultimately, it was my motherly instincts that told me, “Something isn’t right.” At his first birthday party, my son cried endlessly when everyone sang ‘Happy Birthday’. Going out was always a...

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My Story: Raising a child outside my village

I was raised within a village. Not a literal village, but the proverbial village that it takes to raise a child – I was surrounded by aunties, uncles, cousins, and cared for by my paternal grandmother...

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My Story: Social Media-Free Parenting

When we stopped sharing about our family online, my husband and I didn’t expect a lot would change. After all, we weren’t influencers, we weren’t addicted to social media. We couldn’t have imagined...

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I have that thing that Kate Middleton has

Every time the British royal family announced Kate Middleton’s previous pregnancies, it was always coupled with news that she was taking time off from her royal duties due to Hyperemesis Gravidarum...

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My Story: What we decided for our high ability child

Most parents, at one time or another, think “Wow, my kid is amazing!” But we’re not experts, so we don’t really know how amazing they are. What you experience is normal for you. So it was for us, with...

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My Story: The Chinese New Year Traditions I Grew Up With Are Gone

Chinese New Year is almost here, and preparations are underway for new clothes, eve dinners and ang pow packets. Parenting books and websites often talk about the benefits of tradition and ritual and...

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My Story: I will never be a Super Mum like her

As women, and especially as mums, it’s easy to be filled with admiration and amazement at the achievements of Dr Jezamine Lim. She obtained a PhD in Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering, becoming the first...

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My Story: Starting to Learn About Autism

[Contributor Desiree Kaur previous wrote ‘My Story: Beginning My Journey With a Special Needs Child‘. She continues to share the journey she is on with her son] There is no parenting book or blog that...

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Raising My Boys as Feminists

I am a feminist. Loud and proud. When I got pregnant with my first son, my friends were tickled to see me lumbering around with a “penis growing inside me”. Twenty two months later, I delivered another...

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I have that thing that Kate Middleton has

Every time the British royal family announced Kate Middleton’s previous pregnancies, it was always coupled with news that she was taking time off from her royal duties due to Hyperemesis Gravidarum...

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My Story: What we decided for our high ability child

Most parents, at one time or another, think “Wow, my kid is amazing!” But we’re not experts, so we don’t really know how amazing they are. What you experience is normal for you. So it was for us, with...

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My Story: The Chinese New Year Traditions I Grew Up With Are Gone

Chinese New Year is almost here, and preparations are underway for new clothes, eve dinners and ang pow packets. Parenting books and websites often talk about the benefits of tradition and ritual and...

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My Story: I will never be a Super Mum like her

As women, and especially as mums, it’s easy to be filled with admiration and amazement at the achievements of Dr Jezamine Lim. She obtained a PhD in Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering, becoming the first...

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My Story: Starting to Learn About Autism

[Contributor Desiree Kaur previous wrote ‘My Story: Beginning My Journey With a Special Needs Child‘. She continues to share the journey she is on with her son] There is no parenting book or blog that...

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Raising My Boys as Feminists

I am a feminist. Loud and proud. When I got pregnant with my first son, my friends were tickled to see me lumbering around with a “penis growing inside me”. Twenty two months later, I delivered another...

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Oh, you don’t work?

Stay at home mums often juggle many responsibilities at a time. I wasn’t always a stay-at-home-mum (SAHM). In the first one and half years after becoming a mother, I worked. Thus I know what it feels...

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My Story: Pre-eclampsia

There are a few things no one tells you about pregnancy. One of them is that pregnancy is not always rainbows and butterflies. I have told my story about pre-eclampsia many times, but this will be the...

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My Story: I Survived Postnatal Depression

The Dream If you are anything like me, from the moment you found out you were pregnant, you started dreaming. Dreaming of a little baby in your arms to love and to care for. Dreaming of the smiles, the...

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