As we say goodbye to 2019 and welcome in 2020, it's a good time to catch up on the very best of the Herald columnists we enjoyed reading over the last 12 months. From politics to sport, from business to entertainment and lifestyle, these are the voices and views ouraudience loved the most. Today it's the top five from parenting writer Beck Vass.
Why NZ's summer school holidays need to be shorter
You know how sometimes you can just have too much of a good thing? For Beck Vass, that "good thing" was the school holidays. After her first big one with three children, she found herself climbing up the walls. Perhaps it's time to make them a bit shorter?
My disgraceful doctor's visit at Tauranga Hospital
When you're a mum, life has a way of throwing the things you'd least expect at you. Sitting in an anaesthetist's office at Tauranga Hospital as her three-year-old groped her boobs, Beck Vass pondered this, while explaining why she and her husband had chosen to have another child.
Tauranga playground closed by 'cotton-wool parents'
