Before I had kids, I didn’t have that many views on what I would be like as a parent. One of the few things that I did have a view on was that I wanted to instill into my children an understanding of the broader world around them and to be passionate about injustice. I [...]

In Victoria (and many other states in Australia) the Premier of our State holds a Reading Challenge each year. The aim of the challenge is “to promote a love of reading. It is not a competition, but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely.” Students in Prep [...]

Thank you to everyone who entered the ickle kids Activity Pack Give Away.

As I set out in my post about TV we limit the time our children have watching TV and we also deal with time on the computer in the same way. I am happy to sit with my preschooler and teach her how to navigate the screens etc so that she can play some online [...]

Don’t forget the ickle kids activity pack giveaway ends on Wednesday 21st May at 9am Australian EST if you haven’t entered yet! We have a pretty basic menu plan this week. The children all chose their favourite winter style meals as the cold weather has really set in. Although it is a basic menu, it [...]

We do iron our clothes in our house. I am lucky that my husband will iron and is quite good at it. I do though have friends who don’t iron any clothes at all. They always look good and not crumpled, but I can’t seem to move out of the mindset that I must iron [...]