As school drop-offs resume, Bunny Banyai envies her daughters, whose uniforms make them both unknowable and known – if only parents could adopt them too
It’s the end of January, a time of year when most parents in Australia begin to wonder if they are suffering from a major depressive illness or just really ready for the school holidays to end.
As I watch my daughters fight over who got to watch the most YouTube meditations before bed – which is not what meditation is supposed to be about, you pint-sized philistines – I keep myself sane by curling, slater-like, into a ball and browsing the Marks & Spencer uniform shop for pointelle socks, pin-tuck blouses and knife-pleat pinafores.
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