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Shona Hendley

Contributor - Parenting

Shona Hendley is a regular contributor to Mamamia’s parenting section, The Motherish. As a former secondary school Media and English teacher, a passionate animal advocate and a mother (to two human girls, two cats and two goats) she often uses these experiences as inspiration for the content she writes.

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