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A fe w empty beds in a hospital ward.

Skip rope one million times

Life, Parenting
March 11, 2022/Charlotte
This was written in March 2019. Content note: Christchurch terror attack, descriptions of sickness. It started with vomit, then bile. The ambulance was called, but I couldn’t walk, so they called the fire service...
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My favourite essays

Humour, Life, Parenting, Politics
December 23, 2019/Charlotte
This is by no means a comprehensive list of essays and writers I value, it’s just a curation of some of my favourites: to share, and also so I have all these links easily...
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Blame the women, why don’t you

Dating, Life, Parenting
December 10, 2018/Charlotte
I’m angry and sad about Grace Millane, and I’ve been thinking a lot about the rhetoric that inevitably emerges every time a woman is hurt: that she somehow brought it on herself. And I...
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We all hurt each other accidentally sometimes

Comics, Life, Parenting
November 20, 2018/Charlotte
I was sitting outside a cafe and I watched as a pram fell over backwards, pulled down by a bag slung over the handle. I heard the sound of the toddler’s head hitting the...
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Slingshots and Gunshots

Comics, Life, Parenting
November 6, 2018/Charlotte
This one’s for you,...
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New Degree, New Hair, Who Dis?

Humour, Life, Parenting
March 1, 2018/Charlotte
When you’re a student and a solo mother, your budget for personal grooming is comparable to driving to the other side of town for a holiday instead of going to Thailand. Which is why...
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How respectful parenting can shrink foxes

Parenting
October 4, 2017/Charlotte
“Mama I had a dream about foxes and it was so scary and that’s why I don’t want to go to sleep!”  Kids make up a bunch of excuses for not going to bed....
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You just need to keep me living, ok?

Comics, Parenting
August 30, 2017/Charlotte
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How Mr. Men and Little Miss Teach Kids To Hate Themselves

Humour, Life, Parenting
August 27, 2017/Charlotte
There are a lot of books that I enjoyed as a child that dismay me as an adult. But I try not to be a loud too often so I usually just burn them...
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Yes I love you, no I don’t want to be touched right now

Life, Parenting
August 8, 2017/Charlotte
Being a feminist mother of a (white) son sometimes involves a different approach to that of parenting daughters that goes beyond the strange things that happen in their nappies (how naive I was before...
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Because I’m a bossy person

Comics, Parenting
July 30, 2017/Charlotte
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When jokes don’t work

Comics, Parenting
July 23, 2017/Charlotte
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The undeserving poor

Life, Parenting, Politics
July 23, 2017/Charlotte
The first thing that’s relevant for you to know about me is that I’m a beneficiary. It’s such a dirty word, isn’t it? Beneficiary. Conjures up images of the great unwashed, the worn-out mothers...
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Home is a place that is still

Life, Parenting
July 17, 2017/Charlotte
The thing about the urge to run, the crazy cannot-possibly-stay-where-I-am urge to run, is that it immobilises me. Fleeing something hard in my life is no longer an option and so I stay. I...
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The velociraptor attack

Comics, Parenting
July 15, 2017/Charlotte
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Here’s what happens when you find out I’m a mother

Dating, Parenting
July 14, 2017/Charlotte
Apparently this is what happens when you become a mother: This is hard for most mothers, I think, when our complex identities become overshadowed by this one role. But it’s particularly challenging when you’re...
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