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It’s Been 10 Years Since You Looked At Me

It’s Been 10 Years Since You Looked At Me

It’s been 10 years since you looked at me. Cocked your head to the side and screamed “I’m hungry”! 10 Years since you stole my heart. You’re a priceless treasure, a work of art. [with sincere apologies to The Barenaked Ladies] Happy...

 

Mean Mums

Mean Mums

This article has been around the web for a number of years and is perhaps one of the first examples of a viral message. It’s taken on a host of different forms and variations over the years, and keeps popping up as either an article, an adapted...

 

Friday Funny – Advice For Teenagers

Friday Funny – Advice For Teenagers

My daughter ain’t there yet, but she too will benefit from these words of pure wisdom should she start acting up. You have been warned sweet child o’ mine!

 

Why Generation Y?

Why Generation Y?

We’ve all heard it before. But have you ever wondered why we attach names to the groups of people born at a specific point in time? People born before 1946 were called The Silent Generation. The Baby Boomers are people born between 1946...

 

Teach Them to Have a Healthy Relationship With Food

Teach Them to Have a Healthy Relationship With Food

I overheard two women talking outside the gates of my daughter’s school some time ago. They were discussing their children’s eating habits; one said her son had refused anything but two-minute-noodles or pizza for over a year, the other...

 

Make-Me-Better Beans

Make-Me-Better Beans

“If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well” Ruth Carlisle Everyone is sick in my house: Old Spouse, Original Bunn and Our Alice have flu and I am the sole hale and hearty...

 

A Timely Diagnosis

My daughter was in Cape Town as a special treat, with my husband, to watch England play Algeria. She’d been to the first England game and is determined to be at all their games, although she confesses a lack of optimism for their staying...

 

Children vs Cars: Cars Win Each Time

Children vs Cars: Cars Win Each Time

In light of the tragic death in a car accident of Mr. Mandela’s great-granddaughter, the issue of the safety of child passengers in motor vehicles has come up again. Again and again as I drive around I see unrestrained children in cars, babies...

 
 
 
 

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