If you are a parent of young children then you have probably spent hours sitting along the edges of a heavily chlorinated pool filled with youngsters while your little one learns how to swim. Living on the coast our family spends hours in the ocean...
Emily has a pet dragon. Her dragon is purple with light blue wings. Emily’s dragon is so big you cannot begin to imagine how big it is, but it also goes to school with her in her schoolbag. Emily’s dragon eats all of the fruit in her lunchbox even...
The other week our family did a large grocery shop. With more bags than we had arms we grabbed an empty cardboard fruit box from the supermarket shelves and piled our groceries inside in order to carry everything back to our car. Two weeks later...
Anybody who has a child has lived through this scenario before. Your child reaches for a toy at the same time as another child. For a second they lock eyes and then you will mostly likely to be treated to one of three possible scenarios. Your child...
On the surface you would never know that I had this problem. You see, I am terrified of skydiving. I have never been sky diving and chances are that if you tried to get me on a plane to go sky diving my reaction would be similar to that of my cat’s...
Recently, a friend of mine came over for dinner. Excited to have company my social 3 year-old was allowed to say up for an extra 10 minutes or so past his bedtime so that he could have a chat to our friend. Having only recently turned 3 my little...
Family holidays. Two words that simultaneously bring a heady wave of nostalgia and strike fear into the hearts of holidaymakers the world over. I am sure most of us can recall family holidays from when we were kids. They all tended to follow the...
When it comes to kids and computers most parents tend to freak out a little. After all, computers are evil, aren’t they? They keep kids from playing together out in the ‘real world’, they keep kids up way too late at night and they ruin their...
Having a baby is hard work but it certainly has its benefits. For example, your cute little bundle stays put when you put them down, doesn’t answer back when you talk to them and would certainly never deliberately disobey you. But then they learn...
Everyone is scared of something. Whether it is bugs, new people, public speaking, a fear of death, sickness or feeling trapped, there is usually something that gets each of us worked up. Recent statistics suggest that up to 10% of Australians will...