parenting

10 Things I Have Learnt About Year 7 And Year 7 Boys This Year

December 6, 2011

{Image} Our son started secondary school this year, which in Victoria starts at year 7. This year has seen as big of a learning curve for me, as it has been for my son. I very much feel I am at a new stage in parenting – one where I don’t have lots of the [...]

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10 Tips to Prevent Pint-Sized Pester Power

September 26, 2011

Today’s guest post is by Kathy Chapman. Kathy is the Health Strategies Director for Cancer Council NSW and is responsible for leading cancer prevention work, focusing on encouraging healthy living. She is passionate about making healthy choice the easy choice for Australians, young and old and she is one of the leading Australian researchers on [...]

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How To Cope When Dad Travels For Work (A Lot!!!)

July 29, 2010

This is the second guest post from my dear friend Annie. If you missed her first post, it was fantastic and received great feedback, you can read it here Discipline Strategies – Helping Boys With Their Temper. *** Due to his job my husband, the father of our two children aged 8 and 10 years, [...]

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Spending Individual Time With The Kids

July 22, 2010

Today’s post was inspired by Polly at I was just thinking who asked how I managed to spend individual time with my children. When I was halfway through my pregnancy with my fifth child, I was interviewed by Claire Halliday for an article in The Age on large families. When she asked what I found [...]

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Moving With Kids

June 29, 2010

Today we welcome another lovely friend of mine, Catherine Sangster to Planning With Kids. Catherine has three beautiful girls, two at school and the youngest who has just turned one. I have known Catherine since before I had children and she is an incredibly articulate woman, with a Masters in Communication and she is now [...]

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Discipline Strategies

June 16, 2010

Image Source: Jesse.Millan I have many parents come to my blog looking for answers on their children’s behaviour. They tend to land on my posts about: Characteristics of Two (and a half) Year Old Behavior Characteristics of Three (and a half) Year Old Behavior (When my 4 year old hits 4 1/2 and the behaviour [...]

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Tips For Visiting The Art Gallery With Kids

June 13, 2010

Welcome to the June Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival, ‘Kids and Learning.’ The Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival hosted by Science@home is for anyone, because we are all teachers and learners all the time. This month our theme is “Art” which doesn’t just mean doing craft – it includes music, performance art and appreciation as well! Our bloggers have [...]

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Talking With Your Children

June 9, 2010

Last week I reviewed the What’s Happening to Our Boys? AT RISK How the new technologies, drugs and alcohol, peer pressure and porn affect our boys. It certainly provided me with some insight into the types of behaviours my sons will be exposed to. A couple of clear take away messages for me were: Talking [...]

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10 Children’s Activities For June / July School Holidays In Melbourne

June 8, 2010

Anyone else counting down the days until school holidays???? In Victoria the last day of school for term 2 is Friday 25th June, about three weeks away and I for one am very much looking forward to it. As always there is so much on offer in Melbourne that you can do with the kids [...]

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Interview With Maggie Hamilton Author of “What’s Happening to Our Boys?”

June 4, 2010

Having four sons, the title alone was always going to draw me to this book What’s Happening to Our Boys? AT RISK How the new technologies, drugs and alcohol, peer pressure and porn affect our boys. What’s Happening to Our Boys by Maggie Hamilton is a follow up to her best selling book What’s Happening [...]

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Reading, Learning and Education

June 1, 2010

Reading and all things literacy have been a big focus in our house over the last month or so. This focus has permeating my blog reading and as such this month’s highlights from the blogosphere are all about this too! 1. Three Ways To Ruin A Good Book By Reading Rockets this post looks at [...]

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Book Review: Pregnancy and Birth – The Essential Australian Checklists by Karen Sullivan

May 31, 2010

Where was this book when I had my first baby 11 years ago? Pregnancy and Birth – The Essential Australian Checklists by Karen Sullivan has made its way to the top of my list for the “go to” present for friends and family when they announce their pregnancies. With so much information out there, this [...]