Recent Posts Tagged With 'parenting'

• Keeping House for Modern Day Kids

  Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 15:22 in parenting, living, your home

  Oh boy, my kids could pass for the Queen of Lackadaisical Land and the Sultan of Lazytown. Have you been to these places? I visited briefly when the heavens opened and delivered us an ‘ayi’ [read: cook/maid] during our posting in Beijing...

• Christmas Shopping Humbug

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 17:33 in parenting, shopping, toys, living, christmas, family matters column

  Should I mention it yet? That overwhelming word? Christmas? Yesterday I went shopping which, like – never happens any more, being such a stupidly over-loaded (self-imposed) writeaholic. I went shopping for scary bits for our Halloween party on ...

• Ocsober Is Nearly Over!!

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 22:59 in parenting, living, healthy living, donate to charity

  I put an exclamation point on the title of this article because I wanted to you to think I was really excited for Ocsober to be over and that I was rolling about on the floor, clutching at my throat, gagging for a shooter, gasping for a martini, chok...

• Everyday Ways Parents can Develop their Children’s Literacy and Numeracy

  Posted on Sunday August 30th, 2009 at 16:02 in parenting, school education

  National Literacy and Numeracy Week (NLNW) will be held from 31 August to 6 September 2009 across Australia. The theme for the Week in 2009 is Getting the Basics Right. The aim of NLNW is to promote the importance of literacy and numeracy as fundame...

• Drug Action Week: How to talk to your children about drugs

  Posted on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at 19:34 in parenting, community resources

  June 21st marks the start of Drug Action Week, a nation wide initiative which aims to raise awareness about alcohol and other drugs in the community. Every 24 minutes an Australian dies from the misuse of legal or illegal drugs – that’s over 22,0...