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Angela Mollard
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Angela Mollard has worked for the Daily Mail, The Sunday Times and Marie Claire. For the past few years she has combined motherhood with writing about parenting and relationships for News Australia publications such as the Sunday Magazine and www.thepunch.com.au
'It takes a tribe to raise our children'
OPINION: Whenever life starts to weigh her down, Angela Mollard remembers to be grateful for her very own "tribe" of family and friends.
'Aussie blokes need to (wo)man up'
GUYS could learn a thing or two from Hugh Jackman, writes Angela Mollard. The actor is in touch with his inner femininity, and his life is undoubtedly better for it.
Kids miles ahead of pollies on same-sex marriage
OUR kids are being raised without prejudice against same-sex couples. Surrounded by gay teachers, celebrities and doctors, the kids are all right. In fact, they’re thriving.
'Romance movies ruined my life'
GROWING up with Molly Ringwald screws up your love life big time, writes Angela Mollard.
Switch off the gastroporn and eat up
HAS food gone bonkers, asks Angela Mollard. What with "foodstagramming" every meal and the proliferation of cooking shows, it's now all about spectacle rather than sustenance.
Change needed if we want women in the workforce
WHY is it always mums who receive the sick-child calls, and are carrying around immunisation schedules, party invites and sports practices in their heads, asks Angela Mollard.
'Made-up world is killing our girls'
ANGELA Mollard reveals herself in all her "sallow-skinned, broken-veined, wrinkly and splotchy glory" to fight the body and image issues facing young girls.
Remember your man on Mother's Day
WHILE balancing jobs, children, ageing parents, school notes and friends we neglect the relationship from which the whole thing hangs, writes Angela Mollard.
When did frugality become so derided?
ANGELA Mollard is a chick who loves a bargain, a voucher and dining companions who BYOW (bring your own wallet). And she's not afraid to admit it.
Stop running down our fabulous nation
AUSTRALIA has shown a pathetic willingness to fan the Eeyore attitudes of shock jocks. We're bigger than that, writes Angela Mollard.
A letter to my 16-year-old self
PRISONER, Wham! and bad pixie haircuts. Angela Mollard writes a letter to her 16-year-old self on the things about life that no book can convey.
Where is our history in the making?
WHERE are our modern day role models like Mandela and Martin Luther King?
'Our chubby children need to get moving'
FAT is the new normal in Australian society. Kids are so obese they're having their tonsils removed just to breathe. But what's the solution?
Why you shouldn't give work your all
I ONCE left my parents on an overseas trip to get back to work.
My name is Angela and I'm a tiger mum
MY child is clearly gifted. I should have known. Her grandfather was a chorister at Eton - well, until his voice broke.
Tourism Australia is ruining the adventure
TOURISM Australia is taking all the fun out of the great Australian backpacking adventure, writes Angela Mollard.
Beat your kids at the tech game
PARENTS need to be benign dictators about technology, writes Angela Mollard.
No stomach for worrying about my body
I NO longer stew over the way my body looks, writes Angela Mollard
Angela Mollard: High infidelity
EVERYWHERE I turn, everything I am is apparently deeply out of fashion.
Being a mother is a work in progress
I RECENTLY had a rare insight into the mother I've been thus far.
Angela Mollard: Make way for love
WE'D been having the same conversation for years. "He undermines me," she'd say.
Angela Mollard: Dress to impress
LET'S pretend for a minute that I'm a 25-year-old heterosexual man.
Making the grade for your kids
WE have stopped being our children's teachers, writes Angela Mollard.
Humility means nothing in 'me' culture
THERE is no room for the virtue of humility in today's 'me' culture.
Angela Mollard: Skirting the issue
TROUSERS, apparently, are enjoying a "moment". Yep, skirts are dead.
Some men manage to break the mould
ALL around, men are changing the paradigm of what it means to be a dad.
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