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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
During the month of August I have been making my way through my children's favourite books, in celebration of Children's Book Week (officially this week in Australia). So far we have had:
10 Favourite Children’s Books - Thinker's Choice (9.5 y.o)
10 Favourite Children’s Books - Little Rascal's Choice (7 y.o)
10 ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
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During the month of August I have been making my way through my children's favourite books, in celebration of Children's Book Week (officially this week in Australia). So far we have had:
10 Favourite Children’s Books - Thinker's Choice (9.5 y.o)
10 Favourite Children’s Books - Little Rascal's ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
During August we celebrate Children's Book Week here in Australia. As I noted last week, each Tuesday in August I will be posting lists of favourite children's books, as selected by my children.
Last week Thinker gave us his 10 Favourite Children's Books and today's selection is by Little ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
During August we celebrate Children's Book Week. Book Week is the longest running children's festival in Australia and is in its 63rd year.
Book Week this year runs from August 16th -22nd and theme in 2008 is "Fuel your Mind". To celebrate Book Week on this ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Here is a look at 10 posts that I have really enjoyed in the month of July. Normally I try to categorise them into headings, but it is too diverse this month, with the posts being to hard to define into 3 or 4 neat little sections, so here they ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
When trying to reorganise files from back ups onto my new computer, I came across a document that I created a number of years ago which outlines some guiding principles that I had collated. These were principles that I felt should make family life happier and contain less conflict.
It ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The children headed back to school and preschool today after two weeks of holidays. We thoroughly enjoyed rising at any time (me with the first child of the day, which was at least 45 minutes later than usual :) ), but it did mean that it was an effort ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
I strongly encourage my children to make attempts to solve their own problems, as are appropriate for their ages. I want them to know that they can come to me for help, but that they need to be responsible for solving the problem. This like all things in the parenting ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
This post comes to you a little later than usual. My techno troubles have continued unfortunately and my notebook is very broken and will probably not be fixed until Friday. In the meantime I will only have limited access to a computer, so apologies in advance for not ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
I genuinely look forward to school holidays. I think with this long term, I have been counting down the days as much as the children have been!
Sometimes it can get a little hectic with all four home, but by balancing school holiday activities with quiet time and a positive ...
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