Olga Mecking

Writer, Journalist, Translator, The Netherlands

Olga Mecking is a writer, journalist and translator. She lives in the Netherlands with her husband and three children. She covers parenting, women’s issues, food, travel and the environment. She is the author of several books, including Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing (2020) and her translation of her grandfather’s Holocaust memoir, ‘One Chance in a Thousand’.

Written by Olga Mecking

Photo of a woman on a pebble beach with two children, one pulling her hair and the other crawling towards the water.

Why parenting books are not really written for the parents

Parenting books are not really for parents but for the people writing them, and speak more to their own lives than our own

by Olga Mecking