For kids being bullied…

I remember walking into Sacred Heart College as a 12-year-old, a year younger than everyone else, wearing the wrong shoes, a blazer too big and wondering how life would ever be the same. I’d moved to Ocean Grove a couple of months earlier and was about to start year eight. Born and raised in […]

Being a stepparent

According to what I’ve read and experienced over the years being a step mum or step father is loving your stepchild like they are your own whilst always reminding yourself that they are not. It’s caring for them but not too much, not enough to take them to the doctor or the dentist if they […]

We wanted to travel and go to uni first

My husband and I weren’t ready for kids in our twenties, we wanted to go to uni first, travel and establish our careers. We’ve been together since we’re eighteen so got married at 30 and had our first son at 33. There were no complications with Dane. I felt like I had to have a […]

We knew it was time for marriage and kids…

Jarrod and I were together for five years when we separated. I was 25 and even though we knew we loved each other, it wasn’t time to settle down. Three years later when we got back together, we knew it was marriage and kids time. My mum was 34 when she went through menopause. She […]

Four and a half months later we were engaged…

I was 23 when I went overseas to London and had been there a year when I met Rocky, four and a half months later we were engaged. He has a very small family, his mum is Lithuanian and his stepdad is Australian and were both living in London at the time. When we knew […]