“The Nuclear family is dead, in it’s ashes a fire is burning.”

How a revolution of technology, feminism, gay rights and social responsibility have been mixing to popularize a new genre of family.

As archetypes between male and female, mother and father, mother and mother, father and father blur further and further, the modern family has reached an inflection point. The Nuclear family is dead, in it’s ashes a fire is burning.

The global psyche has been evolving with the speed of facebook updates for years. The internet, Social Media, the handheld and the home office all helping inspire a paradigm shift of idealism. The fall out? The structure of our families has inadvertently changed forever.

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The Fast-Dealing Child Talent Trading Game

Keeping up with the *Momagers

In today’s world of Honey-Boo-Boo childs and Kylie Jenner lips the last thing any responsible parent wants is for their child to develop a complex. Years ahead will the air of resentment between parent and child have the candied whif of too much involvement, or the creeping stench of too little? If you’re willing to roll the dice on the momnopoly board, future success will supersede future dissent as sure as go-go-juice is sugar water. Join your fellow gilded parents at Free Parking in 5 simple steps…

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How we interact with modern tech now and will do in the future

Kirsteen MacKenzie investigates if the evolution in our communication technology is liberating us from our surroundings or caging us to a screen with devastating effects…

One of the best things about the internet and also one of the most dangerous things about the internet is that it allows us to get entirely wrapped up in that world, without having to pay any attention to the world that’s actually around us. This is a reflection of the way we now communicate with it, how we are both intensely connected to it, yet vastly disconnected from ourselves, and others.

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 “That afternoon when I became a Goji…was the very best afternoon of my life, and also the very worst afternoon.”

Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you, “That afternoon when I became a Goji…was the very best afternoon of my life, and also the very worst afternoon.” I think the things I remember are more real than the things I now see, more real than what I am today.

I remember the warmth of an unwavering breeze licking at my leaves with the faintest hint of salt. Damp rich earth beneath me and the bright sun above pouring into my veins. Life was simple, living was it’s simplicity and change was it’s enemy. But change was coming as sure as winter and as I grew in size and colour I was introduced to pain. Torn at the neck from my fellow wolfberries I was subjected to discrimination on the grandest berry scale and separated from my sister. Regarded as something new and beautiful I was cast to a higher caste and feared I would never see my home or family again.

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How To : Ensure no one is F* SAD this holiday season

Festive* Seasonal Affective Disorder, like the weather related variety, is a real phenomena that can emotionally overwhelm certain individuals or social groups during what is supposed to be “the most wonderful time of the year”. Symptoms are varied and each variety requires a unique approach, here are some you may encounter this Christmas-New Year…

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