Farmers look down the barrel of another big dry
Drought may be part of life on the land but it’s no less heartbreaking when it happens.
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Take profit motive out of childcare, for our kids’ sake
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s interim report into childcare sends a clear message to the government – it’s time to face the music on for-profit childcare.
We’re both working but only one of us is paid
How can we value, reward and invest in those who provide the kind of care that money can’t buy?
Breastfeeding better for planet than being a vegan
According to researchers, my breastfeeding efforts are enough to offset greenhouse gas emissions from the use of our family car for one year.
Families’ long wait for free preschool
Surging demand for free preschool spots is leaving thousands of families missing out or stuck on waiting lists.
Dismantle the gender stereotypes, not kids’ sex
When I was seven, I asked my mum if I could be a boy. I’m still not ultra-feminine, but I’m glad I wasn’t medicated to make my biological reality align with whatever inner experience I was having.
Science shatters the ‘baby brain’ myth
It’s a casual insult deeply rooted in cultural devaluation of care. But it appears neuroscience is finally tipping ‘baby brain’ on its head.
I gave up a career to raise my kids — and I’m tired of hiding
I walked into the delivery ward a disciple of Simone de Beauvoir — a quintessential career woman. I walked out of the hospital a completely changed person.
It’s time to face facts, childcare isn’t improving our quality of life
The conditions children need to thrive are impossible to synthesise in the sanitised confines of formal care.
Families know full well childcare isn’t working
Leading hardworking families to believe that daycare is the only way to have a family and live in relative financial security is economic coercion.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/virginia-tapscott/page/3