Emily Shaw

Emily is a former ACPA award winning editor and journalist turned stay at home mum and blogger. She lives on a farm in regional NSW with her husband and their seven children where she spends the time she should be doing housework reading books, writing and sewing.

Once A Mum…Always A Mum

      My husband and I went away for the weekend recently. We’d basically discovered that over our eight years of marriage, we really hadn’t done this since we’d started our family. Our children had had sleepovers before at grandparent’s houses, but we’d always stayed home and caught up on housework and hubby had

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New Feminism

Part 4: Death of the old feminist conclusion Radical feminists would have us believe that there is no place for the family in a truly free society. They would be wrong. Indeed, the family is the core institution that ensures social, economic and political stability as well as ensuring human rights are not neglected.  World

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Pretty As A Princess

  Miss 3 will turn 4 soon and I’m already composing a text message in my head to send out to family. It’s going to read something like this: Please avoid buying presents that emphasise the ‘prettiness’ of little girls. We would prefer presents that focus on more practical attributes. Maybe you think that sounds

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