Tag Archives: School

Seasons for growth – a TSIB interview {Part 1}

Denyse isnt what I pictured as the typical social media savvy woman when I started writing online. She’s a grandma, a retired principal and a passionate educational advocate. I noticed her commenting, chatting, tweeting and networking when I first dipped … Continue reading

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Tender Lions Anyone?

My daughter likes to order her lunch. She is also focussed on the canteen ladies. She knows who the most important movers and shakers are at school. Last week on her order she asked them ‘what did you do on … Continue reading

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Absent but present

My daughter has had a rocky start to the school year…her teacher said she seemed ‘change resistant’ last week and I laughed because its the thing I remember most about growing up….on the eve of my tenth birthday I was … Continue reading

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the single parent hangover

  image from here  I had to go away from home last night. Easy some might say, a chance to escape the school run, lunchboxes, life in general. But its not so easy. I havent been a single mum technically … Continue reading

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no one puts baby in a corner…

Image from here  Today is the last day of the NSW school holidays. Im a pretty flexible person but even I have felt the exhaustion of 6 long weeks of keeping little people fed and watered. I didn’t notice it … Continue reading

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Chatting here and there

Ive been chatting about this and that this week. But not necessarily here. We’ve been away from home for the last few weeks so I guess my writing did the same! So jump over to the amazingly popular (and more … Continue reading

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