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Family Friendly Movie: Hotel Transylvania
Don’t Be Afraid! & I do not say Blah Blah Blah! It’s Friday night in the School Hours household and we’re doing our usual rush around to prepare for family friendly movies night. The Apple TV...
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Parenting Tips: My Village In A Storm
Parenting tips – Can anyone lend me a hand? A few weeks ago, I was complaining to a mother at school drop-off about a deadline I had that day but with one child at home, it was going to be tough to...
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Parenting Tips: Helping Self Critical Children
Parenting tips to combat phrases like “I can’t do this work. I’m stupid!” How do you respond if your child says this? We all feel down at times and will think, if not say, negative things about...
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Parenting Tips: Love Thy Children’s Teacher
Is it normal for me to care so deeply about my children’s teachers and coaches? I certainly don’t remember my mother having a strong attachment to any of the people who taught me how to read, how to...
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Why an iPad would make a perfect present for a child’s first birthday
There’s a debate that rages on in the mother’s groups and play date catch-ups around the country. “Should you give your child your mobile phone to play with?” Well, of course you should, don’t be...
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Parenting Tips: Chaos-Day Freezer Food
There is nothing more daunting than walking in the door at around 5pm, carrying an armful of snorting hungry kids, staring at an in-tray full of homework and listening to a continuous chime of...
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Don’t Get Rich Quick (Part One)
Five Work At Home Business Ideas that Won’t Make You Rich Quick So, you want to work at home. You want to run your own business. You want to make up the mortgage and bills without working for the...
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Parenting Tips: Helping Your Anxious Child Unwind
Modern kids are busy kids. Regardless of age, their days are filled with activities. Under fives do a range of adult-initiated learning activities designed to give them the best start to their...
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Don’t Get Rich Quick (Part Two)
Work At Home Businesses That Pay The Bills Check out part one of this article for tips on how to spot spammers and scammers. Right, we’ve covered content manager and social media assistant, heres...
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Teleworking: What sucks about working from home
Contrary to the title of this post, I freakin’ love working from home. :) But instead of boring you as to why it’s so great (and I’m sure most of you already know) I’m gonna let you in on the...
View ArticleParenting Tips: Keep Your Child Safe At Home
Parenting tips no parent can afford to not read At every stage of your child’s development, from a small baby that you have to carry everywhere, through to crawling ball of mischief, tottering toddler...
View ArticleTelework: Enter the Age Of The Remote Worker
Telework and Regional Australia Wow, wow, wow, I just came across an amazing video on the government’s telework.gov.au website in support of telework and it’s impact on regional Australia. It tells...
View ArticleShall we listen to the Walrus…
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to speak of many things.” - Lewis Carroll, December 1871 When people ask us why we are extending our house, we usually say, “For more room, of course!”,...
View ArticleCrying might be good for your child
As a mum, I know the feeling that is evoked when your child becomes frustrated, annoyed, angry or upset and begins to cry. I also know that it often spurs me to intervene and to make everything ok. I...
View ArticleTelework in School Holidays: Stay Productive
Working from home has many fabulous perks like more time with the family, no rushing to the office in peak hour traffic and being able to take “health” breaks whenever you need to clear the head. There...
View ArticleHow I Can Work Around School Hours
Dear <insert name of boss here> As you know, I’ve been a very loyal, trustworthy, and hard working employee since you hired me <insert number> years ago. Everyday I put in 100% to make sure...
View ArticleYour Balanced Lifestyle: What’s missing?
If you were to do a quick evaluation of your life right now, how would it look? Do you have a balanced lifestyle? What’s missing? Are you struggling in any particular life area? Are you taking time...
View ArticleThe Power of Sports Day…
Today is sports day at my son’s Primary School. His very first athletics carnival. Hmmm, mixed feelings about it. How’s it going to go? The air has been abuzz with excitement since he came home from...
View ArticleFighting The Winter Sniffles, Naturally
We all know that winter can be a real breeding ground for colds and sniffles, especially in families, where often it will pass from one person to another and continue to do so in a vicious cycle until...
View ArticleChildren Going In Circles
Children going in circles… I’m sure you have images of children walking round and round almost like those puppy dogs that try to catch their own tails. While that may be a pretty funny image in your...
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