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Scheduling some New Year Planning

January 3, 2010 by Tania McCartney

A short while ago, I attended a businesswomen's social meeting (complete with festive nibbles and bubbles) and listened to the supremely calm and organized Emma Grey (author of our recent book … [Read more...]

New Year’s Resolutions…you can do it!

December 29, 2009 by Emma Grey

As our thoughts turn towards New Year, we sometimes contemplate what we’d like to change about ourselves, and what we’d like to achieve in the year to come. When ‘resolutions’ are broken it’s usually … [Read more...]

Jolly Old St Nick – Who is he? Really?

December 23, 2009 by Tania McCartney

As of this article, it’s only a short time until Santa sneaks into our homes, his sack stuffed with splendid treats for good little boys and girls. Lucky the Good Children List has now gone on the … [Read more...]

Are You a Family of High-Tech Neanderthals?

December 1, 2009 by Tania McCartney

I'm quite techno savvy. I work online, run my own sites, know how to use the latest internet software and understand what an emoticon is and what twitter does. I'm on facebook, I blog, I can text … [Read more...]

Work Life Balance: A Fuss-Free Christmas

November 6, 2009 by Tania McCartney

It's a Festive Irony that the more convenient and accessible the media and retail markets make Christmas, the less time, energy and funds we have to inject into this all-encompassing time of year. … [Read more...]

Keeping House for Modern Day Kids

November 1, 2009 by Tania McCartney

Oh boy, my kids could pass for the Queen of Lackadaisical Land and the Sultan of Lazytown. Have you been to these places? I visited briefly when the heavens opened and delivered us an 'ayi' [read: … [Read more...]

Ocsober Is Nearly Over!!

October 26, 2009 by Tania McCartney

I put an exclamation point on the title of this article because I wanted to you to think I was really excited for Ocsober to be over and that I was rolling about on the floor, clutching at my throat, … [Read more...]

Mortals Beware! A Frightful Halloween Party

October 25, 2009 by Tania McCartney

Lock your doors. On 31st October every year, the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. Rustle up your goblins and ghouls, your witches and zombies, and concoct a cauldron-stirring … [Read more...]

Hocus Pocus – Hosting a Haunting Halloween

October 21, 2009 by Tania McCartney

Holding a Halloween celebration in your house can be as easy as pumpkin pie. Follow these basic ideas and get ready to spook! When we lived in Beijing, our family became hooked on Halloween. Like, … [Read more...]

Cheers to a Sober October

September 30, 2009 by Tania McCartney

Oh boy. It’s started. A sober October. My tee-total commitment to raise funds for Life Education’s invaluable initiative – Ocsober – is about to begin. Thursday, to be exact. At midnight. Well, one … [Read more...]

Nursery Rhymes Explained for Grown Ups

September 18, 2009 by Tania McCartney

I just love a bit of trivia, especially when it's on subject matter that I love. Like nursery rhymes, for example. What is it about nursery rhymes? What is it that enchants us even now as we slide … [Read more...]

Babysitters – Leaving Babies with Babies

August 16, 2009 by Tania McCartney

Family Matters Column. Last night we left our kids with a baby for the first time. Okay, well, she wasn’t exactly a baby, but seventeen does seem awfully young. I have to keep reminding myself this … [Read more...]

Wee Wee Wee, All the Way to a Public Toilet

August 14, 2009 by Tania McCartney

Family Matters Column. All of us have a public toilet story. Some of them involve the kids, some of them adults. Some of them have happy outcomes, some not so clean, and some downright dirty. Many a … [Read more...]

Hold on to your Knickers – It’s Continence Awareness Week

August 3, 2009 by Tania McCartney

Who doesn’t like a good bounce? Along with twirling, spinning and swinging, it’s the stuff kids’ dreams are made of. And it doesn’t dissipate as adulthood descends – I still love a good bounce and … [Read more...]

Family Matters Column: Where has the year gone?

June 24, 2009 by Tania McCartney

Crikey. How did June slip under the doormat? Never saw that one coming, but isn’t it the same every year? Suddenly, you’re staring down the barrel of Christmas and you’ve only just taken down last … [Read more...]

Family Matters Column: Dinner Be Damned

June 16, 2009 by Tania McCartney

I’ve recently come to a realization and a major decision. The realization is that I hate hate hate to cook dinner. The major decision, coming directly from this stunning realization, is that I really … [Read more...]

Be Your Own Mother and Nurture Yourself

June 4, 2009 by Tania McCartney

Perhaps like most mothers who stand on one leg and perform a multitude of tasks like a thrashingly efficient octopus, I'm often hit with the crashing reality that I am indeed a mum. The daily … [Read more...]

A Slow Long Weekend

June 1, 2009 by Tania McCartney

June long weekend, in celebration of some figurehead monarch across the seas (will Queen Liz II soon be 100? who will send her a card?), has snuck up behind me and slapped me hard on the back of the … [Read more...]

The Curse of the Repatriated Mum

May 7, 2009 by Tania McCartney

Parenting & Family Matters Columnist, Tania McCartney. There’s some serious stuff going down in the mind of this mother right now. That and an extraordinary, scrabbling, mind-bending balancing … [Read more...]

Women suffer from memory loss after childbirth

February 5, 2008 by Deborah Robinson

If you want to compete in a man's world, you better not have a baby.  The Science Faculty of the University of New South Wales says they can prove women experience significant deficits in memory for a … [Read more...]

New quit smoking drug Champix linked to suicide and violence

February 5, 2008 by Deborah Robinson

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating claims the new quit smoking drug Chantix, released under the name Champix in Australia, is the cause of suicidal thoughts and related erratic … [Read more...]

Mother chooses family pet over her own child’s safety

January 30, 2008 by Deborah Robinson

The mother of a little boy who was mauled by the family's 50kg mastiff-staffordshire cross has said she won't be getting rid of the family pet.  Alicia Cottier told the media she blamed her two year … [Read more...]

The Grey Cover-up: the decision to dye or not to dye, your hair

January 27, 2008 by Deborah Robinson

I was reading Caroline Baum's article Silver Linings which appeared in the Good Weekend section of the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday, when it occurred to me that I could no longer avoid the … [Read more...]

New Treatment for Smokers but will it work?

December 17, 2007 by Deborah Robinson

I have a confession to make--I'm a smoker and have been for the past 18 years. I want to quit and have tried to kick the habit many times, but find the physical and psychological withdrawal … [Read more...]

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