Today’s post is by my friend Katie. Katie wrote her first guest post back in September last year Our Big Family Story. This post Katie share more about her family and how her and her husband go about life with 8 kids. There is just so much to love about this post – Katie’s love [...]

Today’s post is a brief snapshot of our morning routine. I have spoken before about my morning routine, but as each year brings changes to who goes where and when, it is pretty dynamic and does look different now to what it did last year for me especially. Feedback from the survey in December highlighted [...]

Today’s post is from Dr Brenda Heyworth (B.Med. F.R.A.N.Z.C.P).  Heyworth has specialised in child and adolescent psychiatry for 11 years, and has developed the ‘Jungle’ analogy for children’s emotions and behaviour that has implications for understanding the behaviour of us all. Dr Heyworth is a frequent speaker at local and state government child behaviour workshops [...]

Today’s post is from the team at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, a Victorian Government initiative and the centrepiece of Melbourne’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature. The Wheeler Centre is dedicated to the discussion and practice of writing and ideas. Through out each year it has a programme of talks and lectures, readings [...]

Our eldest heads back to school today and the primary school kids start back at the end of this week. Quite sad to see the end of summer holidays. So as the kids head back to school, in today’s post I have a collection of resources that parents can use to help support their kids [...]

Recently I have had a few emails asking about getting kids ready for school. I have written about it a number of times on the blog, so thought I would collate all the posts in the one spot, to make it easier to find the information. My overall philosophy with getting kids ready for school [...]