On the eighth day of Christmas, I forgot to blog! I also went on a drive to Wollongong, via the beautiful coastal villages and the stunning Sea Cliff Bridge Young Gun is on his L’s, so he drove all the way down and most of the way back. Fish and chips at Wollongong harbour, nice…
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!
OK, I admit I have shamelessly stolen this idea from @acrystelle’s Flight Path blog. But after all, what’s a month long blog challenge without a few idea thefts? Some might even call them a meme…. So what have been my recent top blog reads? I’m going for blogs here that I may not have previously…
I read a blog post on WordPress’ Freshly Pressed today that got me thinking about my parenting style. In her post, Stephanie at Momma Be Thy Name says Parenting standards have obviously changed over the years (and most for good reason), but here’s why I say our parents rocked. She goes on to list a…
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…
Writing this on my iPhone as I wait to meet Bookworm for another theatre production – part of her HSC Drama studies is writing reviews. This time in 5 months the HSC will be over. Finished. Nothing but a memory. In the meantime, there’s this lovely sight as I sit in the Opera House forecourt…
I follow Word Press’ Post a Day on twitter. Today’s suggestion was to write something about bacon. Hmmm. Do I write about my reaction to Jamie Oliver’s pig show? Undertake to go to the Royal Easter Show next week and look at pigs? Post my favourite recipes using bacon perhaps? It came to me in a…
This post is inspired by a number of things. Partly a great blog post I picked up on WordPress’ freshly pressed page about being facebook friends with your parents, partly this cartoon from Unshelved and partly some stuff going on at the moment with my own kids. It’s a fine line we parents of teenagers walk,…
This video speaks to parents of teenagers everywhere (don’t worry kids, tomorrow’s is a chance for you to say ‘but we live with THIS!’):
Speaks for itself really:
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