As a parent, there is nothing like peer pressure to make you change your ways. And if you believe what journalist and mum Natasha Robinson tells you in her recent article for The Australian, that ‘home is so old school,’ then you will enrol your child in after-school-care for the upcoming term tout de suite! […]
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Parents who don’t work full-time are disadvantaging their children? Whaaat?
November 24, 2016 
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The Way We Were
August 10, 2012 1 Comment
Here’s a link to my latest post on hercanberra.com.au http://www.hercanberra.com.au/index.php/2012/08/10/the-way-we-were/ (pic: from ‘Threepaws’ at the-riotact.com)
Continue readingImaginary Friends
July 28, 2012 Comments Off on Imaginary Friends
Did you have an imaginary friend as a child? If you did, chances are you’re more creative than those of us who didn’t. So says Evan Kidd, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the ANU. He spoke on this topic at the TEDx Sydney event last month. Most of you would know about TED, the US-based […]
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November 28, 2011 Comments Off on Let Them Run Free
I read an article in The Australian last week (by Cassandra Wilkinson, author of Don’t Panic: Nearly Everything is Better Than You Think) on how, over the last decade, Australian Playground Safety Standards have been changing the design of children’s play spaces ‘to remove danger, risk and quite a bit of fun’. In a nutshell, […]
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The Bowditch Pitch 