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WINNING LETTER

I KNEW it would resonate with many moms who read YOU and it also became a real talking point in our office – many of the mothers could relate to the story on mom rage ( find it on page 80).

It’s that red-hot fury you feel when your child is doing something you find hard to deal with and your partner is rather nonchalant about the whole parenting thing.

One of the senior people in the team got worked up – and her kids are all grown up already. Another said she totally understood the feelings of the many women in the article who spoke about the anger they felt about parenting issues, and the guilt and shame this triggered.

Women aren’t often given spaces to talk about things like this, which is why so many women identified with the struggles outlined by the author who first wrote about mom rage. And with each person reaching out she

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