I was never one of those girls growing up who when asked what they wanted to be when they grew up said, “I want to be a mum”. I remember plenty of girls in high school saying exactly that. I saw that as totally lacking in ambition and simply following a path that had been […]
OMG I am so sick of hearing the word mumpreneur! Come to think of it I am sick of all these stupid categories being set up and just adding the word ‘preneur’ on the back end of it. I don’t understand how being a mum and running a business even became its own category? There […]
I went to an event about 18 months ago, not long after my book A Childfree Happily Ever After had launched. It was a professional women’s workshop, so the focus of the day was all about your business and finding ways to grow and develop. Like most events of this nature, they asked everyone to […]
I recently went to a new hair stylist, and over the three hours that we spent together while she colored and cut my hair, she never asked me about kids. We discovered that we are the same age and had great conversations about shows and bands we like, things we like to do in the […]
Once upon a time, there was a young girl who had grown up listening to fairy tales where the women is rescued by the man of her dreams, lives happily ever after with a brood of kids. Oh please!! It dismays me to see so many girls and young women say their goal in life […]
I knew from a young age I didn’t want to have children. I remember clearly being quite disgusting when friends at school talked about just wanting to get married and have kids. That was probably about age 16/17. I remember when I was 9/10 thinking I wanted to be a career women and most of […]
America has always had great pride in freedom as a founding principle, but more and more it is becoming increasingly apparent that the freedoms are conditional. I have never felt this more keenly than in our current day as an early 30s childfree woman, even as privileged as I am. We’re out of control and […]
I’ve always known that I have a great life. As a childfree woman, I am responsible just for me (and my dogs too). If I want to go shopping, I grab my bag and off I go. If I want to sleep in, I do. If I want to go to dinner, I get dressed […]
A new movie has been made that showcases and challenges the childfree conversation. I was very honoured to be able to interview the star of the new film EGG – Alysia Reiner. I would recommend watching this and keen to hear your insights on the conversations and choices made by the characters. The movie has […]
Guest post by Ree Ree. ReeRee is a video gamer, nerd and an entrepreneurial spirit. She has heard all the questions and received pressure about being childfree but she enjoys the finer things in life with her husband and enjoys traveling yearly. You know the story, there have been countless movies and tv shows […]