Jai Breitnauer

Jai Breitnauer has worked as a writer and editor for 18 years, and her passions include parenting, health, sustainability and vegan food. Social justice is at the core of her work. She lives in Auckland, with her architect husband and two dance-mad boys, one of whom has additional needs.

Society
Jan 19, 2019

Don’t Marie Kondo your life away

Should you have to take yourself apart and give yourself away, just to find out who you are?

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Society
Nov 3, 2018

The Sun ran a story about free-bleeding. What happened next won't shock you

On Monday, a UK journalist published a piece in a national newspaper about her experience of ‘free bleeding’ – and a whole pile of men told her exactly what they thought about it.

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Parents
Aug 23, 2018

The treatment of teacher aides is a feminist issue

Poorly paid, with no job security and no formal career development, the mostly female profession of teacher aide has been badly treated for generations – and the knock-on effects are keeping others out of the workforce. 

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Parents
Feb 12, 2018

ECE isn’t free: How my family saves $8,000 a year

Spoiler alert: it’s by not having any kids in Early Childhood Education centres. Jai Breitnauer looks at whether 20 hours free in New Zealand is really free.

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Parents
Sep 14, 2017

‘School has been reduced to child care’: A principal speaks out

Jai Breitnauer speaks to her sons’ primary school principal Riki Teteina about teaching in New Zealand and the teacher shortage Bill English says doesn't exist.

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Parents
Sep 5, 2017

Pull your weight: If there’s two of you, you both need to parent

Jai Breitnauer talks about shared parenting in the 21st Century if you're a one mother, one father family.

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