Category: Starting a Family
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Lessons to learn from a letter to an anxious teenager
The secret to getting ahead in life is to “learn to be good with discomfort and uncertainty”. That means embracing change, and learning to love it…no matter how long it’s been since you were in your teens!
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Expecting the unexpected
Thabile Mahlangu, BrightRock’s Marketing Administrator, just landed her first job and was planning to buy her first car… And then she fell pregnant. She explains how this experience changed her life for the better:
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How will you spend Mother’s Day?
This Sunday is Mother’s Day – we asked some of the moms in our community about how they’d like to celebrate with their families. Here are some of the ideas we received.
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On being a good finisher
Parenthood stretches you, makes you more elastic – your dinner plans, your budget, your boobs, the size of your jeans.
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Richard Mulholland: From guy to a dad. And back again.
Richard Mulholland: From guy to a dad. And back again.
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The politics of poo
Welcome to the weird and sometimes wonderful parallel universe of motherhood, where boobs are whipped out in public and no subject occupies the mind more frequently than baby’s bottom.
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Easter eggs: Brace yourself for the sugar rush
The Easter weekend is coming up and for some families that means an overload of chocolate. We asked some of the parents on Twitter to help us by submitting their best tips on how to manage the inevitable Easter sugar rush.
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Building men, woman alone
Two boys down the line, Sam Wilson has come to terms with the fact that she didn’t get to make a “mini-me” like a Russian doll. In fact, she’s come to embrace it.
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What my kids taught me
Sometimes it takes a big change to make you realise that the little things are what count in life, says Richard Mulholland
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Top 10 books all parents should read
A good parenting book can offer useful advice, enlightenment and inspiration. Most of all, it can reassure you that you’re not alone. We asked our Change Agents to recommend their favourites.