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Mar.16.2010
The eye of the storm
It's amazing how fast people pounce when a new parenting study makes it into the mainstream media. The good folk at Murdoch Children's Research Institute have been studying baby sleep patterns and their impact on maternal mental health for the past six years. They...
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Mar.09.2010
Here’s the thing. I am so tired of the competition, the righteousness and the one-upmanship that goes on in the parenting arena. I am tired of hearing that you have to do ‘x’ if you want your child to be well-balanced; that if you do ‘y’, your child will end up a basket case.
I have worked in...
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Mar.04.2010
It is impossible for me to untwine my relationships with my children from the one I had with my own mother. For when I pour my soul into them, when I give them all the love I have, am I not imbuing them with memories of my own mother?
For a long time, the process of my own mothering has been a...
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About Rebecca
Rebecca Griffin is a mother of three children and is the author of 'Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me?'. After gaining her degree in psychology from the University of Sydney, she completed her Maters degree in Management from the University of Technology, Sydney. She...
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Causes Rebecca Griffin Supports
Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW (http://www.sfnsw.org.au), Rainbow...
Rebecca’s Favorite Books
Nonfiction (parenting): Motherless Daughters, Motherless Mothers, The Bitch in the House, It Gets Easier (and other lies we tell new mothers), The Mask of...