Browsing the archives for the Parents tag

PARENTING AT 60% CAPACITY

Last week Ray Romano was a guest on the talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Romano was talking about his parenting style. He was taking his 14 year old son to the movies and he intended to use a code word to instruct the boys to look away if an inappropriate scene [...]

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ROCK OF AGES AND ALL THAT JAZZ

On opening night last week I went to see Rock of Ages. I went by myself, but I didn’t care. I just wanted to see it. Well truth be told, I wanted to hear the music. That whole hair metal era in the late 80′s was my time baby. I own just about every song [...]

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NEWS THIS WEEK 12 MARCH 2012

Our poor kids week aren’t doing so well this week. An alarming number of Year 6 children don’t know where cotton, yoghurt, cheese, bread and bananas come from. Why hasn’t anyone told them? Milo commissioned a report, The State of Play, to find out the playing activities of kids these days. What it found was [...]

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KIDS HAVE THE SIMPLEST EXPLANATIONS

In the spirit of not overthinking things like my good friend Nicole McInnes from My Idea Life seems to think with her post Is There a Brain Behind That Smile or am I Overthinking It? I give you some of my purged thoughts, largely unedited. (I had the edit for grammatical reasons okay). Adults complicate [...]

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IGNORED CHILD BETTER OFF IN CHILDCARE

Remember when Mem Fox made headlines when she likened putting babies into childcare as child abuse? Well you can imagine the public outcry at the unfairness and inflammatory nature of her comment. Is she right? Well that’s for others to decide. Now my youngest is no longer a baby. He’s about to turn 2 in [...]

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