Hello!
My name is Kate Wilson (Moss) NC98! For the best part of 18 months now I have been working with my fellow Newnhamite, Anna Wakerley to get Newnham Roll Mums off the ground. The idea for the group came from a number of discussions we had had within in Newnham Roll Committee about the best way to support Newnhamite Alumni who were Mothers. There was a general feeling that college was very happy to celebrate and sing the praises of Newnhamites who became high achievers in their professional lives - be they oscar winning actresses, authors, journalists, rabbi's, doctors, poets, CEO's of national institutions - there was very little mention of the role that a large number of Newnhamites go on the play - that of being a mother. We very strongly felt that it was time to do something about this and from this the idea of Newnham Roll Mums was born! The idea behind the group is that it provides Newnham Mothers to come together, share friendship and support and to participate in discussions about topics which are relevant to modern parents in today's society - e.g.'Do I return to work or do i become a stay at home mum (SAHM to those of you familiar with mumsnet speak!)?', 'Is breast always best?' 'What childcare options are there available to me out there?' , 'how do i maintain my identity at the same time as taking on this all consuming role as someone's mother?' - Quite frnakly to list of topics that this group could discuss are endless and we wanted to provide some form of online presense where members could come together online and share their view, opinions, experience and advice with each other! This blog is the first attempt at this - hopefully people can come here, read what we have to say and then engage with each other in debate through the comments section! We also have a twitter presense - if you follow Rollmumskate you will recieve all our tweets with the latest and most up to date Roll Mums News! And we hope at some point in the futre that we will have a facebook page aswell.
The more we talked about it the more we realised how important that it was for the group to actually be able to meet in person and from this the idea of the annual Roll Mums Lecture was born. These talks will provide an excellent opportunity for the group to hear interesting and relevant lectures from inspirational Newnhamites - some of whom will be mothers themselves or will have contributed to the field of 'parenting' through their work in some way.
I am delighted to annouce that the inaugural lecture for the group will be delivered by Penelope Leach at Newnham on Friday 11th November, who will be addressing the topic of 'Babies and Brains'. We are very excited indeed about this wonderful opportunity to welcome Penelope to Newnham and to hear her speak and will of course report back to you through this blog!
I think that is about all I have to say by way of introduction to the group - other than to say if you are reading this and you are a Newnhamite Mum and would like to join our blog please do get in touch!....email me at krhmwilson@gmail.com and we will make sure you are sent all of our information!
We look forward to hearing from many of you very soon!
Katexx
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