From the category archives:

10 Things

Parenting – iPods, sibling fighting, responsibility and more!

May 4, 2010

For those of you new to Planning With Kids, once a month I feature my highlights from the web. Often they are based around a theme, like today’s collection which features resources posts that have either helped me with a particular parenting issue or given me information to extend my thinking on parenting. [...]

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10 Things That I Am Going To Do Differently This Week

April 20, 2010

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Let me preface this by saying that I love my gig as a mother, but sometimes the repetition of the daily chores that go along with mothering and taking care of a house with 5 kids wears me down a little. I felt quite flat last week with kids starting term two [...]

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10 Things To Do Before You Go To Bed

April 13, 2010

I am a morning person. I love the potential the early morning brings and the clean slate you have to start with. Over the years we have developed some routines that we at night before we go tot bed, which have made mornings with 5 children enjoyable and a form of “organised chaos”. [...]

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10 Kids Lunch Box Ideas For Autumn

April 6, 2010

Back in October I posted 10 Kids Lunch Box Ideas For Spring. Now that autumn has definitely arrived I thought I would collate some lunch box ideas for the season of autumn. You can see a complete list of seasonal fruit and vegetables in Australia here.
Lunch Boxes Week 1 – Based on early [...]

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10 Activities To Do At Home With The Kids

March 30, 2010

It is school holidays in Victoria. I was incredibly happy to see them arrive. Term 1 went ridiculously quick and was much busier than I would have liked it. I will certainly be trying for a calmer Term 2.
I posted a couple of weeks ago about kids activities in Melbourne that [...]

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What To Do If You Can’t Afford To Buy Organic?

March 23, 2010

1. Produce Stand, 2. Watermelon is love, 3. PAPAYA, 4. Star Fruit
One of my current favourite parenting podcasts is Parenting Unplugged. They were once a weekly podcast but it is now daily (week days), and I particularly enjoy their Tuesday shows when they have an expert on line to interview.
Recently they had an interview [...]

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Fantasy Football For Kids (some very big ones too!!)

March 9, 2010

This is the second guest post from my dear husband, otherwise known as Mr I, the first being Role Reversal Experience – Mr Infrastructure.
Australia over the last few years has caught the very popular fantasy league bug (most common in American baseball and English football). The one I’m addicted to is called Supercoach, which [...]