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.
Irish voters delivered an emphatic rejection of gender-neutral phrasing that erases motherhood. But this was not just a matter of constitutional semantics.
Our unhealthy reliance on pain medication paracetamol may be harming our young ones more than we know.
Trying to keep up with the Joneses is a path to dissatisfaction, depression, despair … and worse.
Arbitrary division of labour with disregard to biology or desire won’t achieve gender equality.
If the time and money plunged into million-dollar beef patties had been directed to renewable energy and recycling solutions, who knows what could have been achieved.
Keeping the peace at all costs is not how we learn and grow. Expecting others to uncritically accept our projections is juvenile.
Advocates fail to acknowledge the evidence that daycare can harm young children’s development.
As a child sex abuse survivor, I hope one day all men are brave enough to identify behaviours or thoughts that are red flags – and access support to change before they offend.
I’m not an ‘untapped resource’ reclining on a lounge. I work full-time caring for my children.
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