Mirian . 4/8/26 Mirian . 4/8/26

Emma Grede, the 3-Hour Mum, and the Question Every Working Mum Is Really Asking

Emma Grede calls herself a 3-hour mum. But the real question isn't how many hours you spend with your kids — it's who you're being when you're there. A working mum's perspective on presence, guilt, and what actually creates connection.

Mirian . 14/7/26 Mirian . 14/7/26

Reminding Your Partner Isn’t Sharing the Mental Load (Here’s Why)

Feeling overwhelmed even when your partner helps? Discover why reminding your partner isn’t truly sharing the mental load.. and how it impacts your relationship and your child.

Mirian . 2/6/26 Mirian . 2/6/26

What Psychologists Know About Parenting That Most Parents Never Hear

Many overwhelmed parents are unknowingly parenting from their own unresolved wounds. Discover what psychologists have known for decades and how separating your reactions from your child’s behaviour helps children stay authentic and emotionally secure.

Mirian . 7/4/26 Mirian . 7/4/26

The Christmas Gift Your Child Will Remember Forever

Feeling overwhelmed by the holidays? The best gift you can give your child this Christmas isn’t wrapped...it’s your playful presence. Here’s how to reconnect with joy in five minutes or less.

Mirian . 16/12/25 Mirian . 16/12/25

Restricting Your Child’s Tech Use Isn’t the Whole Answer

Tired of enforcing screen time rules? Here’s how to raise kids who want to unplug — and the secret to building intrinsic motivation that lasts.

Mirian . 28/10/25 Mirian . 28/10/25

You Don’t Have to Choose Between Career and Kids When You Know This

Returning to work? Learn how to stay emotionally connected, share the mental load, and raise kids who thrive — even when time feels tight.

Mirian . 7/10/25 Mirian . 7/10/25

What Helps Kids Feel Loved and Secure — Even When You Don’t

This Mother’s Day, my son wrote something that brought me to tears: “Make me feel loved and secure.” Here’s what I believe helped him feel that way — even while I’ve still been healing myself.

Dina Cooper 22/5/24 Dina Cooper 22/5/24

The gender pay gap starts in our homes

When the WGEA released their latest reports on the gender pay gap, and then the National Working Families Survey released their latest findings. The disparity between 74% of women feeling stressed juggling work and family, compared to 57% of men, indicates there is an urgent need to address this imbalance.

Dina Cooper 14/6/23 Dina Cooper 14/6/23

Transforming Co-Parenting: Strategies for a Fulfilling Relationship

A truly fulfilling co-parenting relationship is one where it’s safe to express how you feel, you feel you are understood and valued and can talk about what your family wants and needs without blaming or shaming.

Dina Cooper 24/5/23 Dina Cooper 24/5/23

Empowering our children: Navigating identity, worthiness and choices

Last night at dinner, my son shared with me that a few of the children at his school are self-harming frequently and one of the mums recently had to hide the paracetamol in the home for fear of her son taking an overdose.

Dina Cooper 10/5/23 Dina Cooper 10/5/23

The Weight Off Your Shoulders: Strategies for Reducing the Mental Load

There were times when my children were younger that I felt like I was doing most of the thinking about how they were playing with friends…were they being kind, were they being supportive, were they being treated fairly.

Dina Cooper 14/3/23 Dina Cooper 14/3/23

How to Thrive When You’re Torn in Multiple Directions

I dropped off my parents at the airport yesterday morning. They were visiting from the UK. (If you’ve been following my mum’s miraculous journey through Covid, you can read about the latest blessing here).

Dina Cooper 14/2/23 Dina Cooper 14/2/23

The Mental Load of Parenting: The 3 Biases That Exhaust Families

Ever wondered how some people seem so comfortable getting through the overwhelming, overloading number of tasks we have once we become parents? I’ve talked a lot about sharing mental load but today I want to talk about the biases that underlie the majority of the mental load in families. Specifically, three types of bias can operate unconsciously and contribute to how exhausted we feel on a day-to-day basis.

Dina Cooper 7/2/23 Dina Cooper 7/2/23

Finding Your Way Back to Each Other After Having Kids

Parents come to me for a myriad of reasons in relation to their parenting. Often the driver is their child is experiencing regular outbursts, not cooperating, constantly pushing back, and saying mean and hurtful things, and they’ve tried everything they can, and what they have tried has not worked.

Dina Cooper 16/12/22 Dina Cooper 16/12/22

My family review and the 3 most important questions to ask your child

We’re heading into the summer holidays here in Australia so we’ll be taking a few weeks to rest and recharge ahead of an epic 2023!

Dina Cooper 26/10/22 Dina Cooper 26/10/22

Different Ways to Think About Work-Life Balance for Working Parents

The term work-life balance implies there is a holy grail way to live life and work in specified portions that will output a good quality of life. Whilst traditionally we looked at time spent at work versus outside of work.

Dina Cooper 17/10/22 Dina Cooper 17/10/22

4 Ways to Empower Your Child with the Power of Choice (Even if it’s against the crowd)

We need to build our children to be okay to meet their own feelings and needs from early age, especially with the degree to which they are influenced by the external environment, including the internet and social media.

Dina Cooper 11/10/22 Dina Cooper 11/10/22

There is nothing more important than your child’s mental health (TRIGGER WARNING)

What was really happening was I’d never learned how to bounce back from adversity. I had extremely low self-esteem and my perfectionism ran so deep that if I did something wrong, I couldn’t forgive myself.

Dina Cooper 4/10/22 Dina Cooper 4/10/22

How you parent may not be your fault but it is 100% your responsibility

Learning that how I parent was not my fault but 100% my responsibility was both empowering and terrifying in equal parts.

Dina Cooper 26/9/22 Dina Cooper 26/9/22

Children Don’t Need You To Be Perfect, They Need You To Be Human.

Some things got shoved under our bed and in cupboards that I hoped and prayed no one would open, because if they did they’d discover that I’m not perfect after all.