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Benefits of pets for kids

July 15, 2009
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Do your kids love animals?  We are a two pet household (a cat and a dog).  Both were here before our children.  The first two kids aren’t all that interested in the pets.  They’ll give them a pat as they walk past sometimes, but that’s about the extent of it.  Little Mermaid, on the other […]

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Windmills

May 13, 2009
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Little Mermaid loves windmills.  It took me a little while to figure that out because she used to call them wombats.  I was often surprised at the number of wombats she could spot in the middle of the day on western Victorian roadsides. One holiday, less that an hour after we’d left home she declared […]

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The pleasure and the pain

May 8, 2009

The girls had birthdays over the last week, Little Mermaid (now 4) last Friday and Cinderella yesterday (now 6).  We’re very clever to get them close together like that I know.  So far I’ve been able to get away with one birthday party between them, with a cake for dessert on the day of each […]

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Childhood Immunisations

February 23, 2009

For me the decision to vaccinate our kids was a no brainer. I’m a numbers person. When I looked at the chances of suffering side effects from immunisations compared with the chances of complications arising from the various viruses we were trying to quash, the vaccine always won out. I’m not going to go into […]

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Planning a Caravan Trip – Part 3 Keeping kids happy in the car

September 20, 2008

We have three kids – 7, 5 and 3. When we go on our holidays they sit together across the back seat of our car. After the novelty of going on holidays has worn off (as it is bound to do on a long trip), the bickering will start unless we have planned a few […]

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Where do babies come from?

September 10, 2008

It’s an innocent enough question from a three year old and one that I would expect to be able to answer with enough detail to satisfy, but vaguely enough so as not to encourage more difficult questions at this stage. So far our older kids (7 & 5) have been happy with the “you grew […]

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