February 2008

Planning To Shop For The Children’s Clothes.

February 28, 2008

Before I go shopping, I like to write down what the requirements for each child are. There is so much choice available, that I can get overwhelmed when I am in the stores and buy things that they don’t actually need, just because I love it!! Taking the time to do some planning for this [...]

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10 Parenting Books That I Love!

February 26, 2008

I do like to read on parenting issues. Usually I head to a book when I know that there is new stage of development on the horizon. This is my way of planning how I can then best deal with this impending stage. One of the beautiful things about children is that they are all [...]

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Selecting TV Programs For The Kids.

February 24, 2008

I have mentioned before that we limit the amount of television/computer time that our kids have. During the week days in school terms, I am also more selective about what it is that the children watch on the TV. There are lots of programs that although they are rated G or PG, that I do [...]

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Ten Things We Should Never Say To Kids.

February 22, 2008

In my Internet travels this week, I came across the above title, which I just had to investigate further. This is actually the name of an e-book written by Jim Hancock, which is currently free to download from “the tiny company called me” website . For those of you who are not familiar an e-book, [...]

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Reorganising The Children’s Drawers And Wardrobes.

February 21, 2008

Last week it was the toy shelf, this week I have been reorganising the children’s drawers and wardrobes. It an ideal time to do this job, as all the shops have started to stock their winter range, so I need to sort out what we each child has and what, if any new items they [...]

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Useful Box

February 16, 2008

I made a trip out to the Reverse Art Truck this week to replenish supplies for our useful box. This was part of the rotation of toys that I was implementing at home. For Australian readers you would be familiar with the useful box from Playschool. Basically it is a collection of items like cereal [...]

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Planning My Role For The Future.

February 15, 2008

From an environmental perspective, I try to print out very few articles that I read when I am crawling the Internet. But there are some that I find and I know instantly that I need to print them out for future reference. The article Degrees of separation from The Age on 4th February, fitted swiftly [...]

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Reorganising The Toy Shelf.

February 14, 2008

Now that we are fully into the swing of term 1, I have set myself a plan of reorganising or de-cluttering, spots in the house that have been bothering me. Having the kids things organised provides a solid foundation to work from with the kids and sets an example of how I expect their belongings [...]

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10 Things To Do Before Summer Ends!

February 12, 2008

I have to admit that I am a summer girl. I grew up in north west country Victoria, where it is hot- really hot in summer and I love it that way. Last week was unseasonally cool for Melbourne and I was quite horrified to realise that there is less than 3 weeks until summer [...]