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Maia Dunphy
Navigating the Summer Holidays - The True Test of Parenting
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/maia-dunphy-navigating-the-summer-holidays-with-kids-is-a-true-test-of-parenting/a1350725695.html
Maia Dunphy
Vulnerability Can Only Be Created By Others.
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/maia-dunphy-dont-victim-blame-the-vulnerable-its-not-their-fault/a20824361.html
Maia Dunphy
The First Six Weeks
I was quoted in an interview last year as comparing the sleep deprivation that comes with having a new baby to Guantanamo Bay. My heart...
Maia Dunphy
Looking Forward
Many of us live in a perpetual state of anticipation; it’s often the looking forward that gets us through the day to day. Not necessarily...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: The Borrowers
Neither a borrower nor a lender be. I’m sure most of you have heard that at least once in your lives (usually from the kind of family...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Co-Sleeping (AKA another rod for for your back).
I knew nothing about co-sleeping before I had a baby (frankly, it would have been weird as hell if I did). But countless people asked me...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Unapologetic Tractors
I’ve lost count of the number of times baby Tom has been mistaken for a girl, despite the fact that I shamelessly don’t adhere in anyway...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: An Oldie, But a Goldie...
Have you ever seen those mums out and about who look exactly as you had always planned to when you became the buggy-pusher? Dressed...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: In-Laws...
Six letters, two little hyphenated words, but always one massive reaction: in-laws. The staple of many an un-pc comic’s routine for...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Booze
Several years ago I unwittingly became a poster girl for “women and drinking”. I hadn’t intended to, but I made a document called Merlot...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Post-Baby Bodies
In the grand scheme of things, we know the “post-baby body” rhetoric is very unimportant, but even so, how we feel about ourselves is...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Some Kids Are Assholes
Since having a baby, there is no denying that I have become more of a ‘baby person’. I empathise when I see a stressed mum, or hear a...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Dressing Like a Mother
Baby clothes are cute, no matter what colour, size or style. Not so Mum clothes apparently. But what even ARE Mum clothes? I thought I...
Maia Dunphy
The M Word: Milestones
You’ll find as a new parent that many people will only ask you about your children. Sometimes it’s because you have nothing else in...
Maia Dunphy
Too Much Information.
It occurred to me recently how obsessed with are with predictions. I don’t mean opportunistic fortune telling or nonsense soothsaying,...
Maia Dunphy
Memories Are Made Of This...
Humans have many design glitches (features that Apple would have taken three or four iPhone generations to iron out, but ones that our...
Maia Dunphy
Dry January
Three years ago this month, I partook of Dry January (do you partake in abstinence? Enlist? Maybe endure would be a better word). The...
Maia Dunphy
Plans
Somebody asked me about my plans for Christmas recently, and I balked; I’m not even ready for Autumn yet, never mind Winter, because I...
Maia Dunphy
Style
I’m planning a late summer holiday this month, and for the first time in my life, I don’t have the previously ubiquitous swimsuit/ bikini...
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