Every day I get thousands of letters, fruit boxes and stripagrams from AFC readers who say “why so quiet?” or “What happened to the award-winning blog on equal parenting?” The answer is simple: I broke the “no reaching” rule. When we embarked on this baby adventure, Tee and I agreed that for the first 12-18 […]
Sick days: the ultimate test
Sick days are where the rubber hits the road for equal parenting. Kids get sick, and they get sick a lot in the early stages Evidence guru Emily Oster says kids younger than school-age get an average of six to eight cold a year, which last an average of 14 days. (School-age kids have two […]
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 […]
Shared feeding: what worked for us
It’s part II of my award-winning series on feeding! You’ve read my manifesto on shared feeding; this is how we’re doing it: Newborn phaseTee gave Buddy a bottle a day from week one. This was usually in the evening, as part of Midwife Cath’s famous ‘BBB’ routine, outlined previously. This meant more sleep but also […]