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OPINION: 'Parents are being completely gaslit by the new early childhood education report.'

'I'm a teacher who would constantly judge mums on their lunchboxes. Now, I get it.'

'The reason I was denied a pay rise at work was deeply hurtful.'

'My husband of 20 years is cheating on me. When I found out who it was I was in complete disbelief.'

What it’s really like inside the minds of tweens in 2024.

'I tried a week of no screen time with my preschooler. Here’s what I never expected.'

'When I finally told my husband I was leaving him, his reaction spoke volumes.'

'My daughter started dating an older man. Then she left me alone with him.'

Why we need to stop calling parenting issues 'seasons'.

'We’ve decided we’re only having one child... it doesn’t stop the comments.'

OPINION: 'No amount of cherishing your kid now will let you skip feeling melancholy later.'

Kelley opened her DMs to 'regretful parents.' She was inundated with stories.

Women told us the one thing their dad did that made them close. The answers were unexpected.

'I’m scared of what will happen if I choose to not have kids.'

'When your child has a tantrum in public, there's one thing I want to say to you.'

'My distant, strict parents are now loving, attentive grandparents. It hurts more than I expected.'

The unspoken politics of playdates (from a 'hot mess' mum of three).

'My dad went into aged care at 90. What happened next horrified me.'

'I was reading bedtime stories with a glass of wine. A question from my son stopped me in my tracks.'

'My husband asked me to leave my job to become a stay at home mum, so I asked for half of his company.'

'My life was the parallel of Ballerina Farm. This is why I'll never be a 'tradwife' again.'

Cassandra Green

'The cruel "rule" my mother-in-law has when it comes to family photos.'

Motherhood

'Someone told me I was a "superwoman." I was immediately overcome with grief.'

Chloe de Winter

Selena Gomez chose to share her fertility struggles with the world. Somehow, she's still being criticised.

The rise of the Mushroom Mums.

MICHELLE BATTERSBY: 'It's been 3 months since I had my baby and it's nothing like I expected.'

Michelle Battersby

We asked 43 women what they'd say, anonymously, to anyone pregnant right now.

Women told us the one thing their mum did that made them close. They all said the same thing.

'When my daughter was 13, my clothes started going missing. Then I bumped into a friend at the school.'

'My son went to daycare. When I went to pick him up, he was already gone.'

Ariane's baby was just a few months old when the hallucinations started.

'My birth was so traumatic, I discharged myself from hospital against medical advice.'

'My mum is a lovely grandmother. But she's a terrible mum.'

'I made a pros and cons list of having another baby. The cons list is LONNNNG.'

What happened when Diane Foley sat down with the man who murdered her son.

PARENTING CONFESSION: 'I feel so guilty about my close relationship with my stepdaughter.'

MONTY DIMOND: 'I'm a mum of three boys. Having my third child has pushed me over the edge.'

HOLLY WAINWRIGHT: 'TikTok's tradwives are self-harm for millennial mothers.'

Holly Wainwright

PARENTING CONFESSION: 'I would prefer to hold my smart phone than hold my baby.'

'I thought my son was smoking weed. He was hiding a much darker secret.'

'My mum abandoned me when I was just one. Now I take care of her.'

The silver linings of being a single mum (that nobody talks about).

Anonymum: "My best friend dumped me after I had kids. Do I give up on her?"

ANONYMUM: "I was too old when I had my kids."

Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso's ultra-private life.

Shannen Findlay

A dancer and a rising tennis star. The lives of Bec and Lleyton Hewitt's three kids.

This TikTok girl dad is calling out your 'dusty' son.

PARENTING CONFESSIONS: 'The behaviour of my friend's husband makes me uncomfortable.'

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'I've been pregnant in my 20s, 30s and 40s and here's what differed each time around.'

'I didn't just cry, I sobbed.' A letter to the teacher who failed my son.

From Frozen to Moana: 7 Disney+ theme nights to try at home this winter.

"A series of small moments made me realise I had to change my drinking habits around my kids."

It's been 3 years since Charlie Gard died. This is what his parents' lives look like now.

'My daughter doesn't owe you her affection. It's a violation of her boundaries.'

"They heckled me." Dave Hughes on attempting to perform comedy while isolating with his kids.

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Precisely no one can work out whether Grimes and Elon Musk's baby name is a... joke.

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"You are not alone." The Veronicas' Lisa Origliasso on her recent ectopic pregnancy.

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A hidden wife and three secret kids: Everything we know about Kim Jong Un's mysterious family.

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"I can't wait to hug her." 8 women share what it's like to be away from their mums in isolation.

'2020 is my daughter's final year of primary school, and we both feel ripped off.'

"It isn't easy on my own." Katie Price on homeschooling her son Harvey during COVID-19.

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"My legs are bored." 14 parents share their kids' most memorable little moments.

"I want to understand what he has to say." What it's like to raise a Deaf child.

"What if people tease him?" Sophie Cachia just voiced every school-age parent's first-day anxieties.

3 mums share how they established their babies' sleep cycles in the first 6 months.

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