A working mum of two who moved her family to rural Queensland to escape the overpriced Sydney rental market has been confronted with the reality of life without a home and her two children now living away from her.
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“She is obsessed with my four-year-old daughter’s hygiene.”
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“Why do you have a $1200 childcare bill if you’re a SAHM?”
The defeated mum recorded the traumatic experience, tears (mostly hers) and all.
Yes, for the whole three hours
“It got to be too much, so I started sending him home at lunchtime, and then he will come back afterwards,” Kate lamented.
“My wife is looking at me… just shake your head,” he tells them in a video with an epic plot twist.
“I’d walk to the train station and think about throwing us in front of the train, but I’d end up just giving him to a stranger saying, ‘take my baby’.” This story contains confronting themes.
“I never pictured myself being in this situation, ever. But here I am, just scraping by,” Emma said.
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Her ‘petty act’ cost the girls’ their friendship.
“I was gaslit to the point where I didn’t know whether it was in my head.”
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The doctor has accepted that more should have been done to help Pippa, who tragically died from sepsis after being taken to the Orange Base Hospital.
“We discussed this beforehand; we discussed this a few times. My rules were always made clear before a trip was ever planned,” frustrated Julia said.
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“I feel like it makes me a bad friend, telling her she shouldn’t name him that,” the mum says. Is she right to be annoyed?
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“I already know it’s not going to end well…”
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“We don’t teach our children anything. They learn in response to their interests or questions.”
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“I’m 34 weeks pregnant, where am I wearing these?”
“Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.”
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“There’s not a single parent or teacher out there who is not concerned about this issue.”
“Your whole face can change… and you have to try to explain to your two year old why this is happening.”
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“An appalling example of activism and division being forced upon our students.”
“I refuse to use a boring name, and her name is better than Olivia, Alfie, or Louis.”
“We can’t eat in peace, we can’t wear clothes in peace; we literally can’t do anything without it being sexualised.”
“We ask ourselves how what started as a sore throat, snotty nose and a cough on Tuesday to no longer with us three days later.”
“If she was in your situation and you called her that, she would go ballistic on you.”
Primary students are being told to put their “hands on the ground” and say “always will be Aboriginal land” during the Acknowledgement of Country.
“It sat on her bed before we laid her to rest and it means so much,” the heartbroken mum said, asking for members of the Gold Coast community to come forward with information.
“Since we split up he sabotages me at every turn,” the frustrated mum says.
“I thought they were right… I had my baby, it was exactly what I wanted, so why couldn’t I feel happy?” the devastated mum revealed.
We feel like every parent can relate to this.
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