The Hand Mirror

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...

on international women's day, radio nz ran a piece about commercial surrogacy (nine to noon, 8 march 2011, 9.36am). apparently, there...

From the Herald this morning : Portrayed as evil and wicked, the poor old stepmother has never had a good reputation - in fairytales or real...

Because of this . How dare Nigel Latta use his critical faculties and his clinical psychology expertise to come to a rational decision! I...

Deborah Hill Cone has been going through the process of becoming a solo mum lately, and last week she wrote about motherhood along these li...

From the North Shore Times, on Stuff, earlier in the week: Teenage boys are learning a thing or two about fatherhood at Rosmini College. The...

The Fourth Carnival of Feminist Parenting is up now at Mothers for Women's Lib . Great reading therein, and big thanks to whoever nomina...

The first Carnival of Feminist Parenting is up at Mothers For Women's Lib . The next edition will be published, at Mothers For Women’s L...

"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."* Deborah Coddington has gotten all hot under the collar about schools encour...

Back in February I wrote about the Roots of Empathy programme which encourages school children to interact with young babies and thus learn...

'Are you The Child's, ummm aunty?' I've got to hand it to my young cousin, despite only being four at the time she had the s...

What the hell's wrong with me? I've got two children - a perfectly respectable family size - whom I love to bits. I feel more or le...

I've heard about Roots of Empathy - Puna Atawhai on and off for the last few years. My father gave me a brochure on it while I was preg...

Who knew the University of Auckland has a Professor of Parenting Studies and Family Psychology? Here's the column he's written for...