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  • Running your own race & inspiring your kids
    November 1, 2022
    WORDS BY ERICA NEWTON, MYFIRSTGYM CO-FOUNDER Before our cofounder Dan was an uber successful athlete competing in one of the most gruelling races in the world, the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii, he was a father. He is and always will be a champion, not just in swimming, cycling and running really, really, really long […]
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  • The Inertia Plague: Why aren’t kids playing sport?
    October 1, 2022
    WORDS BY ERICA NEWTON, MYFIRSTGYM CO-FOUNDER Our kids are living through their own generational pandemic: the Inertia Plague. A lack of movement beyond their fingers across a screen. A withdrawal from face-to-face contact. A distinct dread of getting out of their pyjamas on the weekend/holidays. Research shows it’s official: our kids’ participation in sports is […]
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  • School Holiday Camping
    September 1, 2022
    WORDS BY ERICA NEWTON, MYFIRSTGYM CO-FOUNDER School holidays, eh? If it isn’t Covid destroying our plans for a few glorious weeks in a tropical location with the kids, it’s ‘once in one hundred years’ weather events, rate rises, skyrocketing airline tickets and anxiety riddled wait times for passports. It’s almost enough to make you think […]
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  • Tips & tricks on how to enjoy a budget friendly School Holidays
    July 1, 2022
    WORDS BY ERICA NEWTON, MYFIRSTGYM CO-FOUNDER From petrol prices to interest rates and general inflation, the squeeze is on Australian families. That quote, “The most expensive part of having kids is all the wine you have to drink,” doesn’t quite cover it. It doesn’t even take into account chocolate and coffee. And with school holidays […]
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  • WHAT I WOULD TELL MY PRE-MOTHERHOOD SELF
    May 1, 2022
    WORDS BY ERICA NEWTON, MYFIRSTGYM CO-FOUNDER Just before I became a mother, there were certain things I knew I absolutely WOULD NOT do once my cherished mini-me entered the world. I’d watched other parents with their offspring and had silently noted what I deemed to be wonderful examples of mothering. Or not. Here are a […]
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  • MAKING THE MOST OF EASTER TRADITIONS
    April 1, 2022
    WORDS BY ERICA NEWTON, MYFIRSTGYM CO-FOUNDER Ask any parent about what Easter was like in their house as a child, and the memories fly thick and fast. Baskets made of newspaper and placed in the lounge room on dreams of sugary, chocolatey eggs. Four day weekends camping with friends. Long church services are followed by […]
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  • 13 WAYS TO COPE WITH CRAZY BUSY PARENTING
    March 1, 2022
    WORDS BY ERICA NEWTON, MYFIRSTGYM CO-FOUNDER “There’s just so much going on and I feel like I’m being pulled in twenty different directions. I need a break, and we’ve only just finished with the school holidays.”  Speak to any parent, and the start of the 2022 school year has hit them with a bang regardless […]
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  • HOW TO SUPPORT OUR KIDS & THEIR OLYMPIC DREAMS
    February 1, 2022
    Words By Erica Newton- Co-Founder MyFirstGym With the Winter Olympics soon to be on our screens, children everywhere suddenly envision themselves luging or bobsleighing at ‘cool’ (read: frightening) speeds. Moguls and aerial ski jumps look like a heap of fun, “and come on Mum, I could totally do that!” are yelled out across the house. […]
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