So this is where my rhetoric gets a bit radical… I don’t identify as a mum. Mum is my title, it is Buddy’s name for me. But fundamentally, I am a parent. I don’t do mum things, I don’t wear mum clothes or attend mum activities. I have no interest in Mother’s Day. Mum media […]
Equal parenting is a radical pursuit
A few things happened recently that made me realise: equal partnership parenting is radical pursuit. radical /ˈradɪk(ə)l/ adjective1. (especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough.2. advocating or based on thorough or complete political or social change; representing or supporting an extreme or progressive section of […]
Introducing The Switcheroo
In Australia, anyone who’s spent at least a year with their employer is entitled to take 12 months of unpaid parental leave. That’s 12 months per parent. And yet caring for young children looks like a woman’s game. In the playgrounds, the playgroups, the cafes and libraries all I see is women. Only 1 in […]