One of the links that came into my inbox this week (courtesy of the ALIA Weekly Bulletin) was an article featuring children’s author Judy Blume talking about overly-anxious parents worrying about their kids’ reading choices (It’s worth clicking on the link just to see how amazing she looks in her mid 70s!). Judy’s opinion is that on the whole, kids…
OK, hands up all you parents out there who’ve been guilty of using this argument? And another show of hands if you’ve been outwitted and out-argued by the kids in the process!
I don’t particularly like summer and February is normally the month I dread more than any other – it’s hot, humid, the back-to-work-after-the-holidays-blues have well and truly settled in and it always seems ages to the next public holiday. This year it’s different. February has been fabulous so far! What am I grateful for this…
When the kids were little, I used to read to them at night and in December I used to try and find a different Christmas story, or a chapter about Christmas from a bigger book to read each night. It was a challenge trying to find something different to read every night so we did…
Tonight I’m reflecting on the fact that it’s Bookworm’s 18th birthday tomorrow. After tonight I only have one ‘child’ left – the other two are adults, whether actually or technically. It’s gone so fast.
Inspired by Bookgrrl’s post on 5 things that are the same or different to 5 years ago (the last time the Census rolled around) I thought I’d reflect on this too. I had to stop and think about the question of where I was living 5 years ago – it seems like a lifetime ago…
Those of you in Sydney will know we’ve had endless, ceaseless, relentless heavy rain for the past 4 or 5 days. The highest rainfall in the city has been at Cronulla, only just down the road from home. Everything is wet. The house is starting to feel damp inside, Bookworm just found that her room…
I love this post about letting our kids learn about failing – using the premise that we can learn from failure (or mistakes, or bad decisions or life events or whatever you want to call them) and be better for the experience. I happen to agree with the writer that by continually propping our kids…
I did this last year towards the end of the Blog Every Day in June challenge & I think it’s worth doing again to remind myself that I do other than just blog! So, here’s a list of 30 things I’ve done this month other than write blog posts: 1. Went to Canberra to visit…
A few weeks ago I headed out on a sunny weekend afternoon with Young Gun to a beautiful spot in the Royal National Park known to locals as Temptation Creek (the track is known as this, I think the waterway itself technically has another name). Access to the creek is from the suburb of Grays…
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