Jacinta Tynan, Essential Kids

Jacinta Tynan

Essential Kids

Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Past:
  • Essential Kids
  • The Sydney Morning Herald
  • news.com.au
  • Essential Baby
  • Daily Life

Past articles by Jacinta:

Instead of going out after my breakup, I decided to search within

I bunkered down, grateful for the latitude that being the only grown-up in the house affords. → Read More

What makes someone a 'single parent'?

Like so many aspects of parenting, it comes down to degrees of hard slog. → Read More

The trials and triumphs of single-parent holidays

Travelling with kids as a solo parent brings unique challenges, but the rewards make it well worth the effort. → Read More

I didn't know what he did was harassment

When your older male boss greets you at the door of his home office in a dressing gown (a short one) with, it would seem, not much underneath, hair still wet from the shower, is that sexual harassment? At 25, I didn't think so. I wasn't sure what it was. → Read More

Jacinta Tynan: I endured a year of destruction, but I came out better for it

It wasn’t the year Jacinta Tynan had hoped for, but she came out better for it. → Read More

Jacinta Tynan: It's important that self-love is now regarded as crucial to our health

Self-worth never used to be a good look, says Jacinta Tynan, but thankfully that’s beginning to change. → Read More

Jacinta Tynan: How I realised nobody is immune to homelessness, not even me

For the first time in my life I was able to see how fine the line is between security and destitution. → Read More

Jacinta Tynan: How I realised nobody is immune to homelessness, not even me

For the first time in my life I was able to see how fine the line is between security and destitution. → Read More

Louise Hay changed the way I think about my life

I first discovered Louise Hay in the bath. → Read More

Jacinta Tynan: Why I'm compiling a daily record of my boys' childhoods

Jacinta Tynan can’t hold back time, so she’s keeping a snapshot summary of her boys’ childhood – for herself and, eventually, for them. → Read More

Jacinta Tynan: Why I'm compiling a daily record of my boys' childhoods

Jacinta Tynan can’t hold back time, so she’s keeping a snapshot summary of her boys’ childhood – for herself and, eventually, for them. → Read More

The Beyonce parodies were fun, but postpartum women need an escape from reality

I got a blow dry before the birth of my babies, and I know plenty of other women who, like Beyonce, cared about their post-birth photo. → Read More

Jacinta Tynan: Justine Damond changed the trajectory of my life

"Justine was big on everything happening for a reason. What purpose could there be in this?" → Read More

School holidays are not designed for modern parents. This needs to change.

School holidays, like workplace culture, are not designed for modern, working parents. Especially mothers. → Read More

School holidays are not designed for modern parents. This needs to change.

School holidays, like workplace culture, are not designed for modern, working parents. Especially mothers. → Read More

Jacinta Tynan: Why I abandoned my frantic pursuit of spiritual enlightenment

After a smorgasbord of spiritual pursuits, Jacinta Tynan abandons the mad rush towards enlightenment. → Read More

I've learnt openly crying is an important step in teaching children about grief

Jacinta Tynan has always hidden her tears from her children – until she realised that scheduling her grief did them a great disservice. → Read More

Why teen parents Jayden Lavender and Jenifer Morrison shouldn’t have to go through this

I GOT chatting to an elderly lady at the hairdresser once who, tears welling, told me how, many years before, she took in a teenage girl who was “expecting” to live with her own family. She was discretely bundled off to the city as “paid help” to this young family (with kids the same age as her) to hide her away for the duration of her pregnancy, until all evidence of her “misdemeanour” could be… → Read More

What living with a dying child taught this mum about living

A random genetic swipe upended the lives of the Murchison family, and made them appreciate every moment. → Read More

What living with a dying child taught this mum about living

A random genetic swipe upended the lives of the Murchison family, and made them appreciate every moment. → Read More