Jackson also thanked her partner, Frank Thorp, in her post: “He picked up my slack, and my mess.”

The village has a population of 1500 people and around 500 houses, Kaur throughout her duty remains vigilant as she knows that a lot is at stake.  

My Nana and Nani had four daughters and decided to raise them “like sons”. Ma and her sisters were expected to study hard, make money, navigate the world independently – in addition to getting married, having children, being their primary parent, the sole household manager, and often caregivers to both spouses’ parents. “Like sons”, in […]

Amma came home after the festival floating on air and fell asleep immediately after telling us her stall was the most popular.

Mom, we look at you and see a walking miracle. Your unfailing love without limit, Your ability to soothe our every hurt, The way you are on duty, unselfishly, every hour, every day, makes us so grateful That we are yours, and you are ours. With open arms and open heart, with enduring patience and […]

An interview of successive generations of Australian mothers to find out what combination of care and paid work they chose, and why.

You can choose to be just you, and not ‘ma’ for today. What is the value of you, ma?

Please in these times of lockdown, don’t run for a schedule, just take it easy. Because honestly not only do the kids need a break, parents need it too.

You can either be a good mom or have a successful career, so just pick one, women are told. But that is so not true.

I realized it in the first two years of my marriage itself that I was going down in my career graph and it is very likely that I will become obsolete in the next few years if the trend continues.