Shambolic Living

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

Janine — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:54:17 +0000

The Hippie Child goes into Year 10 next year. After that there’s two years of intensity for the HSC and then she has to head out into the big, wide world. The question of “what do you want to be when you grow up?” is starting to be asked with a serious tone. We’ve gone...

Work or Stay at Home An Old and Ugly Debate

Janine — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:48:08 +0000

The age-old debate of whether to work or stay at home has reared its ugly head again thanks to American politics. Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strategist, commented that Anne Romney, wife of a GOP presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, was not in a position to give her husband economic advice on the plight of women because...

Dads at Home

Janine — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:45:38 +0000

It seems we’ve come a long way in a single generation. Dads now play a much bigger role in their children’s day-to-day lives than they did a few decades ago. Yet it is still unusual for men to accept the role of fulltime stay-at-home parent. Research carried out in 2010 by the Australian Institute of...

Open Letter to High Achieving Women

Janine — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:09:14 +0000

Dear Women Who Have Done It All I’ve just got one question, how? How do you combine high profile, hardworking, careers with raising children? Seriously ladies I want some answers and I want them now. In my life achievement now boils down to whether we can see the kitchen bench and everyone has left the...

Why Blog?

Janine — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:08:19 +0000

Someone asked me the other day why you would bother to start a blog? It is a bit of a silly idea really, devoting time and energy to writing thousands and thousands of words which may, or may not, be read by others. There’s no money in it, unless you manage to get yourself to...

I Don’t Meet Your Selection Criteria Because I’ve Been Busy Having A Life

Janine — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:24:54 +0000

Returning to the workforce after a ten year absence was an eye-opener. Technology had moved above and beyond anything a mere mortal could have imagined back in 1997. The internet was in constant use in every office in the country, “I’ll google it” a common refrain. How did we ever create radio programs without the...