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April 24, 2020 2 min read
We have a bit of a love-hate relationship with the sun down under. On one hand, those antipodean UV rays can be brutal, life-threatening even, turning grass to dust, skin to melanoma, and damaging our eyes.
On the other hand, the sun gives us our enviable outdoor lifestyle, and a little bit of time in the sunshine is a free mood lift.
And while it doesn’t take a study to know that those warm rays make us feel good, the benefits of sunshine on our health are well-documented.
April 12, 2020 3 min read
February 12, 2020 5 min read
If you’ve ever lived or travelled in a foreign country, you know how difficult it can be to create connections with people when you speak a different language. You can be living and working shoulder to shoulder, yet still feel very alone.
Children (and all of us for that matter) communicate love in different ways. These are known as the five love languages, a term coined by Dr. Gary Chapman and Dr. Ross Campbell in their book The Five Love Languages of Children. So while WE know that we love our children fiercely, they may not necessarily FEEL loved.
January 13, 2020 2 min read
The ‘no hat, no play’ policy has become part of the DNA of school playgrounds. But is this enough to protect our children from the damage that the sun can cause? Increasing Danger Increasingly, experts are concerned about the damage done to eyes from UV rays. ABC News quoted a recent study from America which found that 29 percent of children aged 9 to 11 had eye damage from the sun.
January 03, 2020 2 min read 2 Comments
Read MoreDecember 05, 2019 2 min read
Raising children can be a serious burden on the budget. In fact, it’s one of the biggest costs a family will face. It makes sense, therefore, to be clever about the way we spend money, selecting carefully between the things that are necessary, and the things that they can do without.
November 18, 2019 2 min read
November 11, 2019 4 min read
Despite the internet being awash with Christmas craft ideas, it can be a battle to sift through them all to find something suitable for your children. So, we’ve put together a collection of the best Christmas craft ideas. These crafts can be made from simple materials, recycled or found materials, most of which you’ll probably have at home already.
October 22, 2019 3 min read
Let the Christmas elves among us (you know who you are) rejoice! It’s the time we’ve been waiting for all year – our chance to wear jingly reindeer earrings and whack Michael Buble’s greatest hits of the season on repeat. Fruit mince pies, come at me. And having children gives us even greater license to indulge in all that
August 30, 2019 2 min read
We all know the agony when you pull out your kid’s favourite togs and realise that they have sagged beyond the point of return. After all, we braved the Hunger Games carnage that is the Boxing Day sales for those swimmers, running the risk of repetitive strain injury from flicking through kilometres of kids swimwear racks.
August 28, 2019 3 min read
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