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Is the secret to happy mothering letting go of fairness?

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Tasmania's Aboriginal community believes the state-run child protection system is failing its children.(Supplied: Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre)

Whilst a lot is written about how to raise children not much is said about how to BE a mother. At least not from a mother herself. How much or little do you want to be like your own Mum? And where's the line between being yourself and all the unrewarded giving that motherhood entails? Are there limits to love? Helen Hayward, Tasmanian author and former psychotherapist explores these and more questions in her book A Slow Childhood, notes on thoughtful parenting.

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