Motherhood
Opinion
Parenting
Why it’s time to give up on trying to be a cool parent
Aside from death and taxes, one thing is certain: children will always be embarrassed by their parents, even when you’re doing the coolest thing possible.
- by Shona Hendley
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Sunday Life
The August 11 Edition
In our cover story this week, supermodel Yasmin Le Bon, who turns 60 this year, talks about ageing, family, anxiety and what makes her long marriage work.
Letting go of my daughter has given me a remarkable gift
Her absence was necessary. It was her path to forging her own life.
- by Robyn Holland
In their own words: Why Perth people aren’t having more babies
Young people are not popping out babies like their parents once routinely did. What’s happened to the desire to be a mum or a dad? We hit the streets to find out.
- by Mark Naglazas
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Babies
The one thing mothers can donate to help save premature babies’ lives
Just seven mothers are booked in to donate breast milk used to protect premature babies from deadly infections, with high rates of cold and flu almost wiping out the regular donor base.
- by Kate Aubusson
Megan Phelps-Roper: ‘I was one of the loudest voices of my generation’
The former member of the Westboro Baptist Church talks about the men who helped guide her away from her hateful beliefs.
- by Jane Rocca
My mother’s anxieties about something happening were always there. Now I know why
A tragic accident would shape my mother’s life – and impact my own a generation later.
- by Alice Robinson
‘Every serving of grief is a full serve’: The challenge of losing a twin in utero
It’s a loss that triggers contradictory emotions: how to square the happiness that one survived with an enduring sadness that the other didn’t?
- by Shelley Eves
The quality I have embraced that makes me a better parent and partner
Curiosity might be fatal for felines, but I’d argue it’s the opposite for their keepers.
- by Jo Stanley
Leaving home at 15 was my mum’s idea. I’m so glad she made me do it
Neither she nor I foresaw how profoundly it would shape my life.
- by Kellie Floyd
Opinion
Parenting
As the child of immigrants, I feel a loss for experiences my son will never have
I knew my partner and I were on the same page about raising children, but I didn’t anticipate the impossibility of giving my son full access to my culture and the opportunity to embrace his heritage.
- by Zoya Patel