reader questions

Creative Writing Stories – Primary School Homework

August 25, 2011

Today’s post is my response to a reader’s email. A disclaimer up front again – I am not a teacher. The insight I provide on helping kids with their homework, in this case creative writing stories, is based on my experience and the research I have undertaken. I have read your book and you are [...]

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Kids Swimming Lessons

May 12, 2011

This post is inspired by a question from a lovely reader. You can see some other answers to questions from readers here. You talk about taking the kids to swimming lessons and was wondering (a) how do you take five kids swimming?? and (b) what tips do you have to make it easier? This year [...]

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Personal Motivation In Motherhood

April 15, 2011

Today’s post was inspired by this question from a reader: I would be very interested to know where you get the MOTIVATION to actually do what you write about. Being a mum of (only) one child, planning is not my challenge, but the ‘follow-thru’. Sometimes I just cannot be bothered, which often has consequences I [...]

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Managing Parental Disagreement

November 30, 2010

Today I am answering a reader question from Graeme who was interested in managing parental disagreement – what to do if mum and dad don’t agree. My response to this topic is the focus of my first video post. If like Graeme you read Planning With Kids updates via email, you will need to click [...]

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Activities For Mum

October 5, 2010

This post is part of a series where I answer questions from my readers. If you have a question that you would like me to answer, please feel free to leave it in the comments below. Other posts answering reader questions can be found by clicking here: Reader Questions. Sharon emailed me with the following [...]

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How To Manage Curly Hair

September 16, 2010

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Managing Sibling Age Gaps

September 6, 2010

Image by Pink Sherbert Photography This post is part of a series where I answer questions from my readers. If you have a question that you would like me to answer, please feel free to leave it in the comments below. Other posts answering reader questions can be found by clicking here: Reader Questions. Catherine [...]

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Kids Home Alone

August 19, 2010

Image by Pink Sherbet Photography This post is part of a series where I answer questions from my readers. If you have a question that you would like me to answer, please feel free to leave it in the comments below. Other posts answering reader questions can be found by clicking here: Reader Questions. Megan [...]

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Doing The Washing, The Folding, The Ironing……..

August 12, 2010

Today’s post was inspired by questions sent in by Fleur who was specifically interested in: Laundry routines, how do you get washing dry in the middle of winter, how do you keep up with the laundry folding, how to get kids (and husbands) more involved in household chores When I read these questions I thought [...]

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Children’s Routines

July 23, 2010

Today’s post was inspired by a couple of lovely readers Gin and Sarah. They were interested in routines that I have for kids and any charts that I might use. Children’s School Routine Since my first child has been in school I have used a children’s timetable to help them keep themselves organised for school. [...]

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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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Organisation and Kids

July 8, 2010

At the end of May I asked readers of the blog What Would You Like To Read About? and I had such a fantastic response. On top of the fantastic comments on the post, I also received many topics via email from readers as well. This made my task of planning out the next six [...]