Parenting

A LITTLE NOTE BEFORE YOU PRACTISE POSES. The poses and practices offered can be fun and challenging in a good way! They can also help when you need to deal with difficult emotions like anger or frustration, sadness, even loneliness. Before you try them, please make sure an adult has helped you practise each one. […]

Few relationships are as complicated, as close, as glorious and infuriating as the ones we share with our siblings. Even our romantic relationships, as textured and occasionally rocky as they are, pale in comparison; at least we get to choose who we create family with. Our siblings are simply there, foisted upon us without our […]

Life in My Shoes: Parenting in Mullumbimby, New South Wales with Lotte Barnes-King and Lia-Belle King discussing same-sex parenting, community living and meditation. Interviewed by Nicole Lutze Shoutout: We’re proudly partnering with Birkenstock to bring you Life In My Shoes: A series of interviews with parents from all around the world. Love. Lotte: Lia and I met […]

Life in My Shoes: Parenting in Port Hedland, Western Australia Bobbi Lockyer talks about capturing culture, women’s rights, becoming an artist and raising four boys. Interview by Nicole Lutze Shoutout: We’re proudly partnering with Birkenstock to bring you Life In My Shoes: A series of interviews with parents from all around the world. Family. I live in […]

Location: New York City, USA – Life in My Shoes with Cynthia Edorh discussing her Togolese-Canadian heritage, single parenting in New York, and the need for community connection. Interview by Nicole Lutze Shoutout: We’re proudly partnering with Birkenstock to bring you Life In My Shoes: A series of interviews with parents from all around the world. Family. […]

Location: Kyoto City, Japan. Life in My Shoes with Atsuko Nakagawa, discussing co-sleeping, family traditions and the importance of community. Interview by Nicole Lutze Shoutout: We’re proudly partnering with Birkenstock to bring you Life In My Shoes: A series of interviews with parents from all around the world. WORK AND CREATIVITY We mainly work on picture books […]

Location: Canberra, Australia – Life in My Shoes with Dr Kyl Myers discussing gender creative parenting,  finding love and growing up Mormon. Shoutout: We’re proudly partnering with Birkenstock to bring you Life In My Shoes: A series of interviews with parents from all around the world. Family. I’m an American gender-queer woman, use “they/them” and “she/her” pronouns, […]

Location: Western Iberia, Portugal – Life in My Shoes with Cat discussing living in a goat shed,  birthday traditions and sweet neighbours. Interview by Nicole Lutze Shoutout: We’re proudly partnering with Birkenstock to bring you Life In My Shoes: A series of interviews with parents from all around the world. Growing up. I grew up in a […]

Location: South London, UK – Life in My Shoes with Sophia Cook discussing Tinder, culture, food, life learnings and having two kids under one. Interview by Nicole Lutze Shoutout: We’re proudly partnering with Birkenstock to bring you Life In My Shoes: A series of interviews with parents from all around the world.  Family I live with my husband […]

Location: Essex, UK – Life In My Shoes with Nina Tame, discussing collecting kitsch, tattoos, disability and motherhood in the UK. Interview by Nicole Lutze Shoutout: We’re proudly partnering with Birkenstock to bring you Life In My Shoes: A series of interviews with parents from all around the world.  About me. I was born disabled […]

– Mandy Nolan Getting a drivers licence has become an adolescent rite of passage. In fact there’s an expectation that the afternoon of Sweet Sixteen is spent at the RTA. I believe that isn’t an acronym for the Road and Traffic Authority but rather what you are about to experience for the next year: Random […]

WHEN ANNA KÖVECSES FOUND HERSELF ON A BOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE WITH THREE KIDS AND NO TOYS, SHE IMPROVISED: WITH SOME PAPER AND A PAIR OF SCISSORS, SHE MADE SOME OF HER OWN. Instead of buying toys, you make simple playthings for your son, Abel. Tell us how this project started? The project […]