This year we started a new regular feature, debating some of the essentials of parenting, like how to avoid the playground mum mafia, and some of the not-so-essential but always fun questions like 'can pyjamas on the school run ever pass for 'leisure wear'''?
Here are just a few of these opinion pieces that you've enjoyed (commented on and debated over) this past year:
One mum on why she hates celebrity mum memoirs
Town mum and country mum collected points
Tips on how to avoid the PTA press gang
Or envy of other parents' lifestyles.
Why can't babies just wear soft sleepsuits, lamented one mum
Another of our regular writers wondered why no one bothered to RSVP?
Why a mum strike works
This was the question that attracted a greater audience than any other. It seems we've had enough of being taken for granted.
If you want to read more, check out Parentdish opinions and debate here.
And if there's something you think we should be debating in 2011, please let us know.