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Maternal rage needs a rebrand

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When Annie Ridout’s children kick a ball and knock over the cat food, she shouts at them. And then feels full of guilt. Here, Annie discusses everyday motherhood frustrations and why ‘maternal rage’ needs a rebrand…

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Annie Ridout 30th December 2022
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A slow education

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“My memories are of the targets and the pace, the expectations from others and the foresight into my future that I was expected to possess already,” writes Nicola Dellard-Lylle. So she decided to do things differently with her own child…

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Contributing Writer 3rd March 2022
Essays

Maybe it’s time to prioritise the children, now?

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In this essay, Annie Ridout discusses the impact the pandemic is having on children and wonders when the Government will start to prioritise children’s mental and physical needs over football matches…

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Annie Ridout 24th June 2021
Essays

When mothering makes working impossible

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Annie Ridout discusses those days when motherhood stands firmly in the way of work. The extra childcare responsibilities, the mental load and the emotions…

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Annie Ridout 22nd June 2021
Essays

I wasn’t angry until I became a mother

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In this essay, Annie Ridout explores her motherhood anger. Some of it stemming from tiredness and some of it, from the fierce protectiveness that arrived with her first baby…

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Annie Ridout 16th June 2021
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But isn’t motherhood hard for us all?

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An essay by Annie Ridout on the reality of being a mother to three young children, in which she challenges the notion that some mothers just breeze through it…

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Annie Ridout 11th June 2021
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