Emma Grey
Emma Grey is the author of ‘Wits’ End Before Breakfast! Confessions of a Working Mum’ (Lothian, 2005) and Director of the life-balance consultancy, WorkLifeBliss. She writes, speaks and coaches on motherhood, career and relationships and ‘having it all’, while parenting her three children, aged 12, 10 and two months. She is currently writing a ‘vampire-free’ romantic science-fiction novel for teens. Her blog can be found at http://www.emmacatherinegrey.blogspot.com
Articles by Emma Grey
An un-Belieber tells: Why I missed the Royal Wedding
Hysteria. Queues. Outragious fashion. Prince Charming. We had it all on Friday night - in Homebush. An hour before Kate…... Read more
At the dentist: You’ll just feel a little sting…
Nearly half of all Australians don’t visit the dentist regularly. Cost and anxiety are the stumbling blocks, and no wonder.…... Read more
When is it too late to procreate?
Ninety-four year old actress Zsa Zsa Gabor’s ninth husband, Prince Frederik von Anhalt, reportedly wants her to have a baby…... Read more
The perils of breasts, bottles, and babies
So, radio personality Jackie O crossed a quiet, leafy, Double Bay pedestrian crossing while bottle-feeding her six-week-old daughter and made…... Read more
Girls or boys, young or old, karma gets bullies in the end
My daughter came home from her school camp on Friday and when I asked who was in her cabin, she…... Read more
Dude decoders, quirky fashion and Dolly magazine
So, my twelve-year-old has been in high school for, like, five minutes and everything is, like, a simile and a…... Read more
Fathers: Officially not as crap as Mothers say
‘Delighted when hubby hung his first load of washing on the line,’ noted a Facebook friend. ‘Less delighted when I…... Read more
Parents play role in raunch culture
Seen at the local pool: two bikini-clad girls – around 14 - simulating a sex act in the toddler pool,…... Read more
Competitive childbirth - it’s ‘mum-upmanship’
Nicole Kidman has welcomed a new biological daughter via a ‘gestational carrier’, Princess Mary had her twins in a natural,…... Read more
Modern parenting is losing the plot
My attempts to write something in response to news that a Victorian couple - desperate for a daughter - had…... Read more
Not so much a killer body as a body that kills
Last week’s news of the death of anti-anorexia billboard model, Isabelle Caro, came one day after I gobbled Portia de…... Read more
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From: Hasbro, go straight to gaol, do not pass go
Tim says:
They should update other things in the game too. Instead of a get out of jail free card, they should have a Dodgy Lawyer card that not only gets you out of jail straight away but also gives you a fat payout in compensation for daring to arrest you in the first place. Instead of getting a hotel when you… [read more]From: A guide to summer festivals especially if you wouldn’t go
Kel says:
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