Miranda Johnson

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Miranda Johnson

Working with young children has given me a unique and first-hand experience in supporting each child’s emotional and social development. This article highlights the importance of emotional growth in young children and how adults can support this growth by listening, validating, and engaging through the activity Rose-Bud-Thorn. In a world that moves quickly and often demands more than it gives back, finding small moments to connect with our children in meaningful ways is more vital than ever.

1 month ago | medium.com | Miranda Johnson

I’ll get right to it: grief fucking sucks. I’ve been in a constant state of survival mode since mid-November of 2024 (about 6 months before I wrote this). That’s when my brother called one sunny Friday afternoon to tell me our father was sick and in the hospital. Apparently, he didn’t want me to know. He was an alcoholic. Two weeks after I found out he was in the hospital, he was dead. I hadn’t spoken to him in months. Anger and resentment clouded every thought when it came to him.

1 month ago | medium.com | Miranda Johnson

Dear my younger self,I know how many times you sat alone in the dark, trying to sleep, but stuck thinking about all the “good" and “meaningful” times you spent with your father. There just had to be some, right? In the end, you feel like a bad daughter, not being able to find a reason to be thankful for her father on father's day. You feel sick trying to remember anything that made him feel like a father to you. I mean, he didn't leave. He wasn't abusive.

Mar 6, 2025 | newsroom.co.nz | Miranda Johnson

Trumpian politics in the US President’s second term appear more paradoxical as well as more effective than in his first. On the one hand, Trump successfully campaigned on a platform of ‘America First’. His platform included promises to put the interests of American businesses before those of international ones and to force the issue by imposing tariffs on Chinese goods in particular.

May 22, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | Miranda Johnson |Arts Highlights

From across the ditch, New Zealand can look like a place where settlers and Indigenous people have forged a successful, postcolonial modus vivendi. The image conceals more than it reveals. As in Australia, relations between Indigenous people and the state are fraught. At the November 2023 election, right-wing minority parties won electoral support by rejecting what they have characterised as special privileges to Māori. And a long-standing, bipartisan consensus on ‘biculturalism’ is breaking down.