Images by trekkyandy and A National Acrobat Over the last couple of months I have started increasing my use of social media, mainly on Twitter and StumbleUpon. Part of becoming more engaged in social media has meant that when I see a post I like, not only do I bookmark it for future reference so [...]

Just a quick note to let you know that I have a post up at Aussie Bloggers – Managing Blog Subscriptions. Not one child related word written there, but advice on how to manage 100s of blog subscriptions!

Image by avlxyz Growing up as a child in the 70s and 80s, traditional dinner fare consisted of meat and three veg. The only pasta we ate was spaghetti bolognaise and there was not a risotto or stir fry in sight. This week’s menu plan could easily have been one from my own childhood. The [...]

As mentioned before, the amount of time my children watch television is limited. When they do watch it, it tends to be mainly on non commercial channels or DVDs. So I was completing amazed by the results of study discussed in the Sydney Morning Herald earlier this month. It looked at research undertaken at the [...]

Each year I like to make my own tags for Christmas presents. I pick a theme based on colour or pattern and match up wrapping paper and tags. I have contemplated making my own paper (by decorating plain paper) but generally run out of time, so haven’t actually done this. This year I have decided [...]

A lovely reader included this in an email to me recently: I really liked the idea of your weekly family meeting I was wonder though what sort of topics are brought up at these meetings and if the children bring up issues in your house and if so what sort of issues are they bringing [...]