Why being a parent is good for your character
One of the most compelling reasons for parenthood in an increasingly narcissistic age of instant gratification is that it forces most of us to be better people.
Virginia Tapscott
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What’s wrong with this picture?
I’ve been called a tradwife in wholesale attempts to undermine my ideas, identity and character as a stay-at-home mum. Calculating feminists are weaponising it as a codeword for abuse.
Big families are the best way to boost the population
If Jim Chalmers wants more families to have more babies, he must make clear the demographic complexities at play. This includes bringing the public with him.
Understanding the empathy deficit
It’s not an excuse, but violence in adults can often be traced back to a lack of nurture as babies and toddlers.
Gender equal — except for single-income families
When Daniel Rotham* applied for paid parental leave in the months before his third child was born, he expected to get it.
Is the explosion of diagnosed ‘disorders’ helping kids, or hurting them?
At a busy playground on any given day there is likely to be a parent explaining a child’s behaviour with a diagnosis. Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Anxiety, Sensory Processing Disorder, Autism or ADHD, to name just a few.
Women win culture war on the home front
Irish voters delivered an emphatic rejection of gender-neutral phrasing that erases motherhood. But this was not just a matter of constitutional semantics.
Painful truth about how we over-medicate our children
Our unhealthy reliance on pain medication paracetamol may be harming our young ones more than we know.
Yacht envy, and the insidious curse of relative deprivation
Trying to keep up with the Joneses is a path to dissatisfaction, depression, despair … and worse.
Women’s work should be whatever we want it to be
Arbitrary division of labour with disregard to biology or desire won’t achieve gender equality.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/virginia-tapscott