Child Development – A parent’s perspective

My learnings on child development as a parent of five gorgeous kids.

Sibling Rivalry – Tips On How To Deal With It

July 19, 2011

Today’s brilliant guest post is by Janet Powell from Mentor Maestro. Janet is a Parenting Coach who conducts private parenting coaching and group Parent Effectiveness Training (PET) Courses. The next Parent Effectiveness Training course will start in October, 2011, in Camberwell, Melbourne. More details will be available closer to the date. You can call Janet [...]

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Food Colouring Survey

June 24, 2011

This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. As you may have noticed from reading this blog, I like to read up info to help me parent my kids. Info on education, info child development, info on parenting techniques and the like. But one area where I do have a deficiency in knowledge is all those numbers [...]

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Red Nose Day 2011

June 18, 2011

I am old enough to remember the very first Red Nose Day all the way back in 1988. How fantastic is it that this event has been going for over 20 years now? Red Nose Day 2011 has lead up activities throughout June, with the official Red Nose Day Friday, 24 June 2011. Every day [...]

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Can Women Have It All????

June 9, 2011

I originally published this post on 29 Feb 2008 – it was my second month of blogging. I have had some wonderful conversations with women around me on this issue lately, so seeing back in Feb 2008 I had only a handful of wonderful readers, I thought I would share this post again. Mainly for [...]

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Westfield Give Ability Day – Doncaster

May 24, 2011

This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. As I noted in my post last week, on the week end I went to Westfield Doncaster to support and see in action the inaugural Westfield Give Ability Day. There is one sure fire tell tale sign that there is some special event on, as you walk through a [...]

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Westfield Give Ability Day

May 17, 2011

This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. I can remember being pregnant with our fifth child and wondering had we pushed our luck too far? We already had 4 healthy and fully able kids, would we have the same luck again? When our beautiful son came along, he too was healthy and fully able. This isn’t [...]

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Poems, Songs & Story Times

May 15, 2011

PSST: Poems, songs & story times is a CD of rhymes and songs for young children. Created by the Young Readers Program, it encourages listening to rhymes and stories as an important early step in reading and language development. The Young Readers Program is a partnership between the State Library of Victoria, the Victorian Department [...]

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Easier…….for the moment!

April 28, 2011

Over a year ago I wrote a post that posed the question “Does It Really Get Harder?????“. I was wondering if, once the little kids grew up a bit, things would get easier for me. There were many excellent comments, some saying yes, some saying no, some saying it is just a different “hard” and [...]

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A Different Gift For Mother’s Day This Year

April 24, 2011

As the blog has grown, so too has the requests for me to promote products and campaigns. I reject way more than I take on, but every so often one will come along and I know I need to help spread the message. This was the case when Bec from Child’s i Foundation contacted me. [...]

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Kids Chores – What My Kids Do In The Morning

February 17, 2011

So we have been back at school for a few weeks now. Over the holidays we ran to such a different pace and timetable – it was lovely! While the kids have been getting themselves ready for school with no problem, the completion of their usual morning jobs has been hit and miss. To their [...]

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Education and Literacy

January 25, 2011

Image source:allaboutgeorge As we are about to head back to school here in the southern hemisphere I thought I would share some of my most recent favourite education flavoured posts that I have read around the blogosphere! 1. Separation anxiety – tips for teachers This post comes from an Australian blog written by a couple [...]

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Preparing Your Child To Read

November 26, 2010

This post is part of a series on Preparing For School. The aim of this series is to provide tips on how you can get organised and support a smooth transition into school for your kids. Today’s instalment is also a fantastic guest post from Jackie at My Little Bookcase. Jackie has just launched her [...]