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The Nordic Mum

Dec 27, 2019

When you look at PISA results, you have to take them with a pinch of salt. They are a snapshot of where the education system in the OECD countries are. If you look at the PISA results for this year, it’s not that Australia has slipped backwards. It’s all so all the other countries, all the developing...


Dec 22, 2019

Did you know that I have recorded this episode quite a few times before? Reason is that my poor laptop has suffered or the water damage, my son poured water on it. I managed to save the interviews that I've done two separate hard drives but some of the other episodes I had to redo them. And then while I was...


Dec 15, 2019

Now, if you follow Scandinavian news and news from Nordic you would have known that last week, Sanna Marin age 34 became the Prime Minister of Finland. Now, how did that happen? That's what I'm going to talk about here today, and also about the big picture political climate and feeling why there's so much more women...


Dec 1, 2019

Keeping your Swedish roots alive when you live overseas is hard. My guest Linnea Dunne is author of Lagom, and Morning rituals books. She also is a editor, mother of two and self-confessed feminist and has spent the last few years campaigning to repeal the 8th amendment in Ireland. Linnea is originally from Sweden and...