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Why you should always interact with your baby
Exhausted mums can't interact with their babies and tired kids can't learn.
Exhausted mums can't interact with their babies and tired kids can't learn.
COMMENT: It's important to hold politicians to account. But what about our own standards?
COMMENT: Think synthetic cannabis won't impact your family? Think again.
COMMENT:Any employer worth their salt understands importance of flexibility with time off.
COMMENT: Todd Barclay could probably have done without this week's publicity.
COMMENT: What sort of person would lie about their parents being involved in fatal crash?
OPINION: School days are not always the best memories.
COMMENT: It was 12 years ago and we were buzzing with excitement at work.
COMMENT: To target children at a concert has to be the most despicable form of terrorism.
OPINION: Sperm donor from Prison? I was lost for words when the story hit the headlines.
COMMENT: People have known there is a problem with our waterways long before new report.
COMMENT: Who needs sleep when there's a new grandson to look after?
COMMENT: For me a cloudy rainy humid summer that promotes lush vegetation and full water tanks is an absolute blessing.
COMMENT: There seem to be two extremes of parenting - ignorant slacker and obsessive perfectionist.
COMMENT: I totally support the Greens' initiative to make te Reo Maori a core subject, along with English and maths.
COMMENT: So this Christmas, I will savour every last morsel of my whitebait fritter - because it may well be my last for a while.
Providing affordable, quality family homes was a major aim of the first Labour Government.
COMMENT: Vicki Letele is dying. She will not see her three young children grow up. That has to be a far worse punishment any court could give her.
COMMENT: Perpetuating the myth that young brown men are only able to achieve success on sportsfield seems to me to be just another kind of casual racism.
COMMENT: Everybody deserves a second chance. But Nikolas Delegat has a great deal of work to do on himself before he gets back to yacht racing in Newport.
COMMENT: It's awful arriving home to find your place has been burgled. The sense of violation is devastating.
COMMENT: There's always medals per capita and medals per GDP tables. Look at those and we're still beating the Aussies. That has to count for something.
COMMENT: Parents can be fined $150 for being responsible for their child's truancy but I'm happy to pay the price.
COMMENT: When you're going through a tough time, everything you can do to help yourself feel stronger and more empowered is vital.
COMMENT: The unpalatable truth though is that if I wanted to have a retirement of choices and freedom, I should have planned for it 30 years ago.
COMMENT: There I was, dry-mouthed, hands trembling, clutching my cue cards in sweaty hands. It was my final assessment for the Maori language course.
COMMENT: You shouldn't be able to get a soft option simply because your parents earn more money than their neighbour.
COMMENT: Men who hit women are bullies and control freaks and they're dangerous. If you choose violence, you need to own it and get help.
COMMENT: Watching the great Anzac Day massacre of 2016, I wonder how the Warriors will ever be well again.
COMMENT: I thought the old attitudes that suggested women were asking for rape by dressing a certain way had been expunged from our collective thinking. But no.