I haven’t seen this one but I’ve seen all the Sugar Rush episodes on Netflix. He is definitely them most boring judge. And, as an Australian myself, I find his accent grating at times.

Urh. My kid has been in neonatal intensive care for a week, and the next baby over’s parents have been very skeptical about the vaccines that the nurses and doctors are hoping to administer. It’s one the best children’s hospitals in the world, and still they’re like ‘uh I don’t know, I’m gonna go google it...’. Even…

I have a light grey armchair that stayed clean for barely a week thanks to a kid and 2 dogs. How do you keep a whole house and it’s contents sparkling white when you have a child (let alone multiple children)?

I have dealt with a fairly large number of horrible feet and lower legs in my career. But when the foot or lower leg is too bad, they have nearly always been referred on to the podiatrist at a chronic wound service. I have always wondered how someone could choose to be a podiatrist, where you see the worst of the…

I have been buying my kid a pair of super hardy leather school shoes at the start of the year, for around $110-130, with the hope and expectation that they will last pretty much the whole year. So, while I don’t hate these shoes, I would not buy them for $90. They’re not going to last through dragging them through…

Continence Specialist Nurse here, so this is my topic of choice! Poo schedules are great, and can work really well with kids and adults. Don’t spend half an hour on the toilet though, that is a recipe for haemorrhoids. For kids, 3-5 minutes on the toilet after breakfast, lunch and dinner is optimal. This can not only…

I need to know the answer to this...

This ‘what about the children?!’ question isn’t it though. Kids, including my own, are really into butts. They are the number one topic and base of jokes. Kids wouldn’t be shocked and appalled, they’d be like ‘yes, more butt and fart joke material!’.

Exactly. It’s your right to take it, so take it. It’s like saying you earn $3o an hour but only take $25 because it makes you look like a better employee.

I think this depends on what sector you work in and who your employer is.  I’m Australian and my partner and I have not had any bad experiences so far with applying for/going on parental leave.  I work in not-for-profit healthcare and he works for the government, but we’re both permanent employees as well so that…

That is horrifying.  I’m due for my 2nd baby early next year and as I live in Australia, any NICU treatment (or other hospital or ambulance etc) would be free. I can’t imagine the stress of worrying about the financial side of things when you’re already worried about your baby. That’s terrible.

Good idea.

When I was administering vaccines, I had that feeling of despair too often. Too many parents just deciding actually they’d skip one/two/all of the vaccines because they heard something stupid somewhere. Urgh.

It is a really tough, long, expensive and uncertain path. And there are a lot of conditions that a lot of people aren’t comfortable with. I work with quite a lot of women with poly-substance abuse, complex mental health issues, family and intimate partner violence etc, who have had 1, 2, 3 kids taken away by child…

He was so utterly creepy in Secret Smile. I thought the book was scary enough but no, he made it creepier.

I saw that when I was a kid and it gave me nightmares for so long.

Mellencamp sounds terrible. Men who say they’re children really are awful. Not awful children, just awful men.

You can definitely have too many cats. I have visited patients who were cat hoarders. The horror...