An Open Letter to My Child’s Teacher
Dear Grade 3 Teacher, I’m not sure if you are aware how stressful it is as a parent at the beginning of each school year, waiting to hear teacher allocations. As an educator you spend the main part of each day, almost every day, with our children. We entrust these walking, talking parts of our […]
What Parents Should Do With NAPLAN Results
NAPLAN results are currently being handing out across the country to students who sat the test in May. NAPLAN stands for The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy, and is administered to grades 3, 5, 7 and 9. Despite it’s divisive nature, NAPLAN is a fixture of the Australian education system and seems to […]
The Pros and Cons of Kids Room Sharing
My boys have predominately shared a bedroom since the youngest was 18 months old. They are now 8 and 10. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing, particularly as they have gotten older. However, for the brief period that they had separate bedrooms, my boys often chose to bunk in together anyway!! Their 3 year old […]
The Mummy Shaming Needs To Stop
It has honestly got to the point where I dread looking at my social media feeds. As someone who writes online content and is a self-confessed social media junkie, that’s a pretty sad testament to the situation. I’m just so over the mummy shaming. You see it everyday, multiple times a day. And I’m not […]
This Is How To Get More Healthy Food Into Your Kids
Kids can be fussy and contrary when it comes to food and many parents worry that they aren’t getting enough healthy food into those growing bodies. After all, everyone is busy and come dinnertime it can be easier to opt for chicken nuggets or the standard tomato-based pasta if you know it’s guaranteed to get […]
6 Reasons You Need To Cull Most Of Your Kids Toys
To say my children have a lot of toys is the world’s biggest understatement. Two bedrooms overflowing, as well as a play area complete with dolls house and play kitchen. It’s madness. What’s even crazier is that when we moved six months ago I gave away or sold boxes and boxes of toys. Yet I […]
How Learning A Musical Instrument Can Benefit Your Child
Last week a French Horn came home with school with my 8 year old. This joins our existing ensemble which already includes a tenor saxophone, keyboard and electric drum kit. I’m going to have to buy my neighbours noise cancelling headphones for Christmas. Despite my grumbles about the racket, I am actually quite pleased my […]
How To Run A Household When You Are Sick
Mothers are a pretty stoic bunch. We push through all sorts of hardship and discomfort to keep everything ticking over because we are generally the glue that keeps the household together. But sometimes something will get the best of us. Recently for me it was a nasty virus that ended up with laryngitis. I probably […]
Controversial Findings Of Birth Order Study … What Do You Think?
There is a lot of emphasis on birth order and the impact it has on the way children turn out. Like the study that claims first born children are more conservative and intelligent or the widely discussed “middle child syndrome”. Now there is a study claiming birth order affects the likelihood of delinquency. It seems […]
What My Children Taught Me About Loving My Body
Like many women, negative body image is nothing new to me. I’ve always been round and soft, even at my slimmest. Of course, having three very large babies has contributed in its own way to the round and soft physique and added more than a few tiger stripes along the way. However, at the grand […]