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<i>Dita De Boni:</i> Katy does the Street

The fact outraged parents managed to get <i>Sesame Street</i> to pull the duet between Katy Perry and Elmo shows how powerful their consumer dollar is.

Brown v Banks for the city of our children's future

Dita De Boni hopes the first Super City mayor will give Aucklanders a reason to abandon their cars.

The plight of 'too-disposable children'

Dita De Boni wonders what can possibly be done to protect children who are encountering squalor and neglect at home.

Dita De Boni: Navigating work as a solo parent

Dita De Boni on how the welfare reforms might impact solo parents.

<i>Dita De Boni:</i> Off, damned flab!

When the scales show you've put on ten kilos over three years, you have to do something about it, writes Dita De Boni.

Sharing our eggs

Dita De Boni on why she supports calls to allow IVF egg donors to be paid.

The actual cost of childcare

Working NZ families pay 28 per cent of their net income on childcare, according to an OECD study. Dita De Boni examines the costs.

Splittin' it

Dita De Boni addresses the issue of income splitting for tax purposes.

Setting examples

Good parenting, writes Dita De Boni, is not just about clothing, feeding and educating your children.

Working up a sweat

My husband cheerfully piped up the other day that he had taken up running because he wasn't getting enough sex.

After-ball excess

From my vantage point - admittedly not having yet to deal with the mixed blessing of teenagers - it seems that ball season is completely out of hand.

Relax and grow rich?

When I heard that Claire Wadey, the co-author of a new local book called <i>Relax and Grow Rich</i> was a mum with two small children, I was intrigued.

Keeping Mum: Are you late?

Last year, 76 per cent of British adults surveyed said they thought it was appropriate to run advertisements offering help for those dealing with unplanned pregnancies.

Puberty's wild ride

If parenting toddlers seems like hard work, teenagers seem in fact to be much harder, writes Dita De Boni.

A galaxy of stars ... and me

Dita De Boni is thrust back into the social scene post giving birth to and raising her small children - and finds she has nothing to wear.

Killing them softly with Playhouse Disney

The loud wail some Aucklanders may have heard this week from the region of Mt Eden was no alarm, car horn or siren - it was me, reacting to the news our TV was on the blink.