I was reading this story at News.com.au this morning about a mother who had to drop her toddler ten metres from a fairground ride that had malfunctioned. Scary stuff.
Sherri Pinkerton and her daughter Gracie got stuck on the Crazy Bus ride at the fair in Port Orange, Florida, when it suddenly restarted as they were [...]

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Author Mem Fox has opened up a controversial debate by claiming that childcare for very young children is child abuse.
According to this article at News.com.au, Mem believes that society will look back on the trend of allowing babies only a few weeks old to be put into childcare and wonder, “How could we have allowed [...]

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Our 9 year old son James, returned home from an overseas trip on the weekend.
He had traveled with Pauline’s mum to England and France. I’m not at all jealous that he got to see the final stage of this year’s Tour de France live in Paris. (Well - OK - maybe a little.)
We’ve been missing [...]

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I’m battling to stay awake.
I’d go to bed but I need to head back into work this evening to give a youth group a tour of the radio station.
I got about two and a half to three hours sleep last night because we had to get up at 2:00 a.m. to take James to the [...]

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Emily might have turned 12 last week but she’s still our little girl, so it wasn’t easy to wave goodbye at the airport on Saturday.
She headed off with her classmates and students from two other local schools for a five hour flight to begin a week long trip to Sydney and Canberra.
I think they’re visiting [...]

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We caught up with a few friends last night. We headed out to a local Thai restaurant.
It wasn’t a late night, probably because we all had kids at home. We needed to get home to relieve the babysitters.
I guess another reason it wasn’t a late night also had a lot to do with the children. [...]

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