Type of Care

  • Not everyone is lucky enough to work at RedBalloon

    I have a one and a half year old little girl and am also lucky enough to work at RedBalloon. RedBalloon is truly the one and only organisation I have worked for that fully and…

  • It’s the same old question….

    Most nights I feel like a broken record…. “Ok, who is doing the drop off and pick up and have you paid kindy?” It is the same conversation every night! We have to juggle meeting…

  • 8 hours after giving birth my board gave me an ultimatum

    In my teens I fantasized about having my first child at the age of 21 because I thought it was cool to have a young Mum. Well I delayed that momentous moment for 15 years…

  • The hardest years

    Sarah and I work in the arts industry as freelancers, and Sarah was also beginning a back-up career in workplace training. We lived in St Kilda and had a great childcare run by the council.…

  • It’s complicated!

    I have three kids in three places! One at school who gets picked up by a nanny twice a week and his grand-mother once a week (and me, mum, the other 2 days). The two…

  • Make Care Fair

    I run DIAL-AN-ANGEL. We have just celebrated our 45th Anniversary in business. We have been attempting to get the Government to give our clients choice and provide a rebate for in home professional childcare, disability…

  • No room at the inn(s)

    My wife and I have both lived in Australia for a decade now and became citiens a couple of years ago. We had a little boy last November and (despite warnings from friends who had…

  • We must change too

    This comment first appeared on the NaomiSimson.com blog post… Now everyone can add their own story … please add yours here… (and upload a picture). We could talk forever about the topic but you’re right….a…

  • FaceBook leaders gives 3 reasons for lack of women

    This blog first appeared on NaomiSimson.com I was particularly interested in establishing if the US experience might be different to the Australian experience. Here is her thoughts.. —– I was forwarded a news article this…

  • Where are all the women

    This is an excerpt that originally appeared on Margie Hartleys blog. There is a commercial reason for wanting more women in leadership roles – simply it is a growth strategy – highly talented people who…

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