Parent Opinion - Mamamia

'My brother lives with a disability. Here's what I wish someone told me and my family sooner.'

Georgina Jelovic

'How a Facebook post about my dad tore my brother and I apart.'

'My husband left me. Stop telling me to be grateful for my kids.'

'My 15yo son asked me how much mayonnaise to put on his sandwich.' Are you an overindulging parent?

'A DNA test revealed my dad isn't my biological father. He has no idea.'

Why we should be focusing on glimmers in the 'hard years' of parenting.

Hannah Vanderheide

If you have a new mum in your life, Mother’s Day is hers.

'My mum was always guarded and emotionless. On her death bed, she told me why.'

'I had a first birthday party for my son. I refuse to throw one for my daughter.'

'The viral TikTok about the daycare debate that had me in tears.'

The one thing we're missing in the Melbourne mum and Arj Barker conversation.

This woman helped feed families for years. Then her 'perfect' world came crashing down.

'I loved Bluey's "The Sign" episode right up until the ending.'

Rebecca Sharley

This is exactly how much sleep parents lose in the first year.

Here's the real reason you feel like a 'teen mum'.

'I have five kids and I think mums hate on child-free women because of envy.'

The sharenting reckoning putting us all on notice.

HOLLY WAINWRIGHT: The kids are going to blame us for this.

Holly Wainwright

'I just had sterilisation surgery. I didn't expect all the opinions.'

'I'm an emergency doctor and mum of 3. Here are my 9 game-changing parenting tips.'

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

'No, you don’t need to document everything. (But I can’t stop).'

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'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).

MICHELLE BATTERSBY: ‘I delayed a baby for my career. Now that I’m pregnant, I want to call out why I hesitated.'

Michelle Battersby

'I refuse to let my mother-in-law hold my baby. My husband is furious with me.'

Shannen Findlay

'While my kids were watching TV, I was hiding in the pantry drinking wine.'

'The Trent Dalton quote that helped me process the loss of my seven-and-a-half-week-old daughter.'

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

'Before I get torn to shreds.' A handmade baby gift and the beginning of a family dilemma.

Shannen Findlay

The rise of the Gummy Mummies.

Vanessa Mulquiney

Crippled by self-criticism and self-doubt? You could have a mother wound.

ASK HOLLY: My friend had kids and became boring. Is it okay to break up with her?

Holly Wainwright

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."

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.'

'35 years ago, my dad wrote his honest thoughts about fatherhood. After he died, Mum showed me.'

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'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.

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"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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