Sydney Morning Herald columnist Sam deBrito writes on topics that matter. I first met him when he wrote on Rev. Graham Long’s book, Love Over Hate: Finding Life by the wayside and he gets into many of the heavy social issues. Last weekend, he wrote about a charity I have been following, Room to Read.… Continue Reading
This time last year, I started agonizing over whether my daughter was ready for school. Her birthday is in June and in the state we live in, the cut off for sending children to school the following January is July 31st. Most of her preschool class was going to school the following year. She would… Continue Reading
As mothers, we are constantly given advice about raising our offspring – especially when our children are young. There are two pieces of advice that resonated with me in those exhausting years of tiny children and I have carried them with me. 1. Some days are dogs; some days are diamonds. Run with the dog… Continue Reading
It is the June holidays and end of Term 2 – it’s likely you have received your child’s mid year school report. Times have changed since we were at school in the 1980’s when a C on a school report was average and if you got a D, you didn’t get fed dinner or were… Continue Reading
I work three days a week. I am very careful to separate my work persona from my home persona. So much so that one of the girls at work didn’t even know I had three children. A couple of weeks ago, on one of my work days, it was my daughter’s birthday and on the… Continue Reading
It’s the school holidays. How many times have your kids said ‘I’m bored’? My great aunt (who is now 93) banned the word bored from our house very early on. If we said bored, she gave us an equally unattractive job to do. I think she must have been on the same wavelength as I… Continue Reading