A Citymother's & Cityfather's Diary
Mena McMahon 
22nd May 2018 at 04:53 
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Back in 2015, I wrote my first blog for Cityparents. It centred on my ambitions for a random weekend which, like for most, had a focus on seeing more of my partner and my then 2 year old daughter, re...
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Mena McMahon 4th Apr 2018 at 04:15 0 Comments
Chocolate is not a special treat. Why? Because special things and treats are what we really want. We all know we shouldn’t have too much chocolate, especiall...
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Mena McMahon 7th Feb 2018 at 02:05 3 Comments
In September my four-year old daughter started full-time school. While our focus for the past five months has been supporting her learning in this new environment, with the first term now behi...
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Mena McMahon 31st Jan 2018 at 02:35 0 Comments
With my wife’s maternity leave having come to an end, she recently resigned from her part-time in-house marketing job in the city in order to take up a new full-time position working from home ...
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Mena McMahon 17th Jan 2018 at 04:34 0 Comments
In the most privileged way possible, my daughter is currently homeless. (“Somebody sing hello, hello, hello”.)
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Mena McMahon 1st Nov 2017 at 02:46 2 Comments
There has been quite a bit in the press recently about the growing number of one child families. My wife and I both have siblings – my wife is the older of two sisters and I have an older siste...
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Mena McMahon 25th Oct 2017 at 03:48 0 Comments
"During my weekend moonlighting as my eldest’s chauffeur (although we traipse from Saturday activity to activity with her on the back of my bike, so I’m more akin to a Deliveroo cy...
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Mena McMahon 10th Oct 2017 at 14:15 1 Comments
The temptation to fix things is strong. Especially for a man, because it's well-known that our response to a problem, particularly one raised by a woman close to us, is to offer an immediate and ...
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Mena McMahon 22nd Aug 2017 at 17:44 1 Comments
I've worked for my current employer for just over one year now. In looking for a new role, a key criterion was the flexibility of part-time working to allow me to spend more time with my da...
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Milly Sutton 25th Jul 2017 at 17:44 3 Comments
Through a chance meeting with a member of the HR team at work earlier in the year I was made aware of my firms recently enhanced ‘shared parental leave’ offering. As you can expect, I had...
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Mena McMahon 4th Jul 2017 at 23:29 0 Comments
When I was 13 years old I had a run of bad form at school. First I got in trouble for insulting my French teacher’s fur coat. She was a Russian woman called Madame Filipovna. A very mean and un...
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Mena McMahon 15th May 2017 at 23:40 0 Comments
When I was in my late teens I was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I had displayed symptoms of OCD earlier in childhood but in my late teens and early twenties it took a strong hold over...
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Mena McMahon 4th Apr 2017 at 21:49 0 Comments
We're starting to think about education for our daughter. Now she’s almost two, it feels like time. Or it's way overdue. I want to make sure she’s fluent in classi...
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Mena McMahon 6th Feb 2017 at 22:45 3 Comments
After being a parent for nearly four years, my wife and I feel like we are no-longer complete novices in managing the various aspects of being a city parent. Like most working parents, work fatigue, ...
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Mena McMahon 10th Jan 2017 at 09:14 0 Comments
Happy New Year to all you Cityparents. It seems a lot of people were back to work after Christmas this week, or maybe it was just that everyone was on the pavement at the same time yesterday thanks ...
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