Author: Dr Jodi Richardson

“The mental load means always having to remember.”

Emma, a French cartoonist summed up the mental load that most mothers carry in her 2017 viral comic, ‘You should’ve asked’. In the opening scene, a very hassled mother was preparing for a dinner party, while feeding her two young children, dealing with a noisy dog and answering the phone, all while she was hosting a colleague for dinner. As the dinner boils over the stove and onto the floor she looked at her partner imploringly. He unwittingly answered, “But you should’ve asked! I would have helped.”

This scene artfully […]

Last week at the College, eServices ran our first cybersecurity drill at the College to educate staff on the issue of people trying to steal their username and password.

Cybercrime is certainly on the rise, with 1 in 3 adults being affected and at a cost of $29 Billion in 2019 in Australia alone. This event led to some rich discussions around the College this week and stories of encounters with scammers. The internet is a place of great resources and information. For example, I am particularly fond of learning new card […]

Author:  Michael Grose

This has been a tough parenting year. On a personal level it’s been challenging, but when you add the extra difficulty of helping children and young people navigate this year, you’d be forgiven for feeling like you’ve had enough.

It’s timely to look at US-based academic Dr. Brene’ Brown’s research that informed her book The Gift of Imperfect Parenting. Brown’s core finding was that the best parenting strategies rely on modelling for them to be adopted by children. That’s a little scary as it means we need to be the adults that we want to our kids to become.

There […]