The official launch of the Planning With Kids book was on Friday morning. It was one of my happiest moments — it exceeded all my expectations. I have some very important people …
What’s In The Planning With Kids Book and Book Launch Details
Thanks so much for the wonderful support of the Planning With Kids book. I have been thrilled at the response. If you have pre-ordered a copy, your book will be making its …
Pre-Order The Planning With Kids Book!
I am very excited to share with you the cover of the Planning With Kids book. It is not long until the book will be making its way on to bookshelves around …
The Story Behind The Planning With Kids Book
Over the last couple of months I have received lots of questions about the book and how I have gone about writing it. So today I thought I would share a little …
Book Review: The Needlecraft Book
Today’s review is written by my dearest friend Cath from Mobblegobble. Cath is very crafty and is my greatest source of inspiration for making things by hand. Dorling Kindersley’s The Needlecraft Book …
Just Wanted To Say Thank You
I wanted to take the time to say thank you to the fabulous loyal readers of Planning With Kids. The blog has been running almost three years now and as the readership …
Our Favourite Christmas Books
Today’ gorgeous post is from Karen at Earthly Joyride, reading it started to make me feel super Christmassy in all the right ways. Karen is passionate about reading to children. Her blog …
Manners For Children
We have been so lucky to meet the wonderful Meredith this year. She has helped us in many ways and is such a generous person. Most recently Meredith lent me this fabulous …
Book Review: Zombie Felties
One of the things I love about school holidays, is that it gives me more time to spend doing activities with the kids. The first week of the school hols we were …
Book Review and Give Away: Labyrinth of Birth by Pam England
*This give away is now closed. Congratulations to Marnie – please check your email to arrange delivery of the book.* Labyrinth of Birth: A Map, Meditations and Rituals for Your Childbearing Year …
Book Review: Harry the Happy Caterpillar Grows (Helping Children Adjust To Change)
The day this book arrived in the mail, I didn’t have time to sit down and read it straight away to my four year old. We had just come home from running …
Book Review: The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett
Having not heard of Sonya Hartnett before this year, this is now the third book that I have read from this fantastic Australian author. Her skill as a writer is evident as …
Book Review: Leo The Littlest Seahorse by Margaret Wild and Terry Denton
Leo The Littlest Seahorse is one of those picture books that has a great message for parents reading it to their children. It is written by Margaret Wild and has the most …
Book Week Ideas
You can find more ideas for celebrating book week on my current post for 2011 here – Book Week Activities 2011 – Ideas for CBCA Shortlisted Book. It is only a month …
Book Review: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time by Mark Haddon
Welcome to the July Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival. 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 …
Book Review: Yellow Is My Favourite Colour by Judy Horacek
As I have children aged from 11 to 1, I read a vast range of children’s texts to my kids which I thoroughly enjoy. I do however have a soft spot for …
Book Review: Simple Softies For The Whole Family (and our first handmade Christmas Gift for 2010!)
This week we finally had time to make something from the very gorgeous book Simple Softies For The Whole Family. This is the third book in the series, first was Softies and …
Interview With Maggie Hamilton Author of “What’s Happening to Our Boys?”
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 …