Parenting Through A Pandemic: How Covid Has Changed The Way My Kids Play.

Melanie Wegener This pandemic has affected all of us in some way, shape or form. For some, it’s meant a halt to travelling overseas. Limited our ability to earn a wage or keep a business afloat. It has reduced social interaction and dating opportunities. Changed our retirement plans. For others it’s make it hard to […]

Reflecting On Covid Isolation: Why It Wasn’t All Bad

Adjusting to life in Covid isolation was a lot to take in. When it all got real in Australia and our prime minister began regular media conferences, I found it unsettling and stressful. I’d just start to wrap my head around one restriction, only for this to change several days or even hours later. I felt like everything I did, and every decision I made was wrong somehow.

As a stay at home mother to two young children, I felt the isolation profoundly. I didn’t have an escape. All of our regular activities had been cancelled.