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Everyone can help lighten the load for a struggling new mum or dad. Here’s how.

How you – yes, you! – can be a godsend to a new parent

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Reflections on homeschooling, 15 years later.

What I learned (and didn’t learn) from four years of home education

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An insomniac’s guide to getting to sleep when it’s hot and muggy

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Zeni Gibson has been stalked and gruesomely harassed for nearly nine years by a man in Wellington she rejected when she was 17. This is her story.

‘I need to make you suffer’: My near decade of violent harassment by a man I barely know 

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October's deluge wasn't as bad as it could have been – but hard decisions still lie ahead.

When the flood came for South Dunedin, this time it was ready

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Madeleine Holden writes about her agonising first year of motherhood.

The Sunday Essay: Will I hurt my baby?

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I read yet another study about toddlers, screen time and language development, and it sent me off the deep end. 

How many goddamn words should I be saying to my baby?

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This year, Tori Peeters competed at the Paris Olympics. Ten years ago, Madeleine Chapman thought she might be in the same position. 

What it takes to be an Olympian, and why you don’t have it

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Our country has a rich and bizarre history of foodstuffs turning up in unexpected places.

A brief history of New Zealand’s weirdest mystery food dumps

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The ideal candidate for a foreign exchange is personable, adventurous and charismatic enough to transcend the language barrier. I was none of these things.

Remembering my awkward high-school exchange to Germany

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When we insert ourselves into the lives of animals, we become complicit in their fates.

Following the Swiss wolf, who walked 2,000 kilometres for love

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With specialist mental health services in ‘chaos’, people who need help end up in destructive cycles and prison. Experts say there are solutions, but is political will and leadership lacking?

Prison or nothing: The ‘self-perpetuating downward spiral’ in New Zealand’s mental health system

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David Hill is in his ninth decade. In a touching tribute to his late friend, he challenges some myths about 'old farts'.

On being undeniably, irretrievably old

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The rankers become the ranked: Hera Lindsay Bird tackles the most meta ranking of them all.

All 85 of The Spinoff’s rankings, ranked from worst to best

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Mina Foley was a formidable talent dogged by wild rumours about her mental breakdown. What is the truth?

The NZ ‘voice of the century’ who wound up in a psych hospital for 16 years

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Selena Anderson from Ahipara Horse Treks seems to have a perfect job. But what’s it like behind the scenes? 

Dream job or idle fantasy? What it’s like running horse treks in the Far North

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New Zealanders are united in their love of holiday homes, but we remain divided on one crucial thing.

When and where does a ‘bach’ become a ‘crib’? 

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Aotearoa’s organ donation system is under pressure. The Spinoff investigates the problem – and how we might fix it.

‘Everything I do in life, I do it for my donor’: Inside Aotearoa’s struggling organ donation system

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'It obviously spoke to the children,' says the woman responsible for promoting fish and chips at breakfast, lunch and tea.

Meet the unsung icon behind the primary school hit ‘Fish and Chips’

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Realising she can afford to buy a house – but only one that contained meth use or murder – Kristin Kelly reflects on the true value of a home.

Should I buy the murder house?

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Which shop is hardest to leave without a pile of hard-to-find paperbacks under your arm?

Wellington’s secondhand bookshops, ranked and reviewed

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'I looked over and saw Dai Henwood just shaking his head.'

‘The room went dead quiet’: Josh Thomson on his worst 7 Days moment

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Our capital is a far cry from hot, bustling Kuala Lumpur, so why is this freezing city full of excellent Malaysian cuisine?

How Wellington became a cornucopia of Malaysian food

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The popular Auckland pasta spot closed its doors with no warning in late 2023. What went wrong?

Inside the fast rise and faster collapse of the acclaimed K Road restaurant Cotto

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The best places in Ōtepoti to pick up everything from medical romance novels to rare first edition hardbacks.

Dunedin’s secondhand bookshops, ranked and reviewed

Hamish Parkinson investigates one of our great nation’s least-known foundational moments: Sir Edmund Hillary’s ultimately fruitless 1960 expedition to Nepal to look for the yeti.

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Hamish Parkinson investigates one of our great nation's least-known foundational moments: Sir Edmund Hillary's ultimately fruitless 1960 expedition to Nepal to look for the yeti.

The Spinoff

SocietyOctober 4, 2018

That time Sir Edmund Hillary went in search of the yeti

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SocietyOctober 4, 2018

That time Sir Edmund Hillary went in search of the yeti

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