Latest from Kerre McIvor on New Zealand

Why you should always interact with your baby

Exhausted mums can't interact with their babies and tired kids can't learn.

Kerre McIvor: We want our leaders honest, but are we?

COMMENT: It's important to hold politicians to account. But what about our own standards?

Kerre McIvor: Drugs affecting middle class

COMMENT: Think synthetic cannabis won't impact your family? Think again.

Why you should take tomorrow off work

COMMENT:Any employer worth their salt understands importance of flexibility with time off.

Kerre McIvor: Under a mountain of shame

COMMENT: Todd Barclay could probably have done without this week's publicity.

Fisherman who told a whopper

COMMENT: What sort of person would lie about their parents being involved in fatal crash?

Kerre McIvor: 'Was I the bully?'

OPINION: School days are not always the best memories.

Kerre McIvor: The Lions and James Bond

COMMENT: It was 12 years ago and we were buzzing with excitement at work.

McIvor: Despicable to slaughter children

COMMENT: To target children at a concert has to be the most despicable form of terrorism.

Whitebait fritters mean Christmas

COMMENT: So this Christmas, I will savour every last morsel of my whitebait fritter - because it may well be my last for a while.

Kerre McIvor: Kiwi families need homes

Providing affordable, quality family homes was a major aim of the first Labour Government.

Kerre McIvor: Not seeing kids far bigger penance

COMMENT: Vicki Letele is dying. She will not see her three young children grow up. That has to be a far worse punishment any court could give her.

Kerre McIvor: Spending $1 billion is criminal

COMMENT: Crime does not pay, as the old adage goes. That may or may not be true, but what is absolutely without question is that crime costs.

McIvor: Pot-luck pain relief a cop-out

COMMENT: Australia has cleared the way for medical cannabis to be grown and distributed and it must only be a matter of time before NZ do the same.

McIvor: Casual racism has many forms

COMMENT: Perpetuating the myth that young brown men are only able to achieve success on sportsfield seems to me to be just another kind of casual racism.

Kerre McIvor: Staying in the headlines

COMMENT: Everybody deserves a second chance. But Nikolas Delegat has a great deal of work to do on himself before he gets back to yacht racing in Newport.

Kerre McIvor: Blue line thin on theft

COMMENT: It's awful arriving home to find your place has been burgled. The sense of violation is devastating.

We've plenty to be proud of at Rio

COMMENT: There's always medals per capita and medals per GDP tables. Look at those and we're still beating the Aussies. That has to count for something.