The Hand Mirror

It happened, it finally happened; Early's first tantrum, a few weeks from turning two. He decided to really really go for it.  At St L...

On Friday I went to the Wellington launch of a new book, Child Poverty in New Zealand, by Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple (Bridget William...

Many thanks to an anonymous teacher who emailed this in. Teachers often bemoan a lack of funding for education. Yet I suspect I'm ...

Monarchy New Zealand have come up with a delightful suggestion for celebrating the birth of our likely future monarch, the great-grandchild ...

And now the government is considering penalising beneficiaries who don't immunise their children . Just as I believe access to free c...

i knew it : ... new research shows that it's possible kids can be too clean. You read that right. That's because all of the soap d...

Port workers and their families on the picket line.  Child holds placard saying "All my daddy wants is a roster". On Saturday ...

I want to write on some related issues to this piece of bigotry by Rosemary McLeod, which I shall try and do later, but in the meantime: ...

On Monday the NZ Herald started a week-long series looking at the gap between rich and poor in Auckland.  On the first day they examined two...

Saturday morning Wriggly:  Why aren't there any presents under our Christmas tree? Me:  What would you do if I put presents under the ...

An acquaintance, someone I once knew well but have largely drifted apart from, posts about her son's screaming in response to various st...

By Leonie Morris, Centre Manager, Auckland Women's Centre - from their Spring 2011 newsletter The Government has signalled its intent...

I was so sure it would be the Tuesday.  No particular reason, just a hunch.  Due date was the first or second of September; the midwife s...

Message via the awesome Auckland Women's Centre: The Waitemata Local Board is developing its first local board plan that sets out the ...

Snuffly loves cuddles.  He's quite happy, most of the time, to be cuddled by anyone who is gentle and loving, and everyone is when faced...

Thought people might be interested in discussing this further. Here are links to both the Summary and the whole of the report Through T...

cactus kate wrote a post in response to this one of mine on the article by dr amy chua published by the wall street journal. naturally, k...

random lurker, a commenter here, popped over to my blog a couple of days ago to ask me what i thought about this piece in the wall street j...

... if you ever did feel guilty about being a mother in paid employment. can't say that i ever did, but now the research proves that yo...

A report of a mother's sentencing this week has been haunting me. The first thing to note is that the woman, a recent immigrant from Fi...