by Dancing Wombat | May 21, 2016 | Achievements, Blog, Family and Community
Train Wombat has been taking the fast train through Wombat Land for some time now. His activities have been way too important and his life far too busy to accommodate tedious things like, well, locating his floor under the increasing layers of clothes, train detritus...
by Dancing Wombat | May 13, 2016 | Achievements, Blog, Family and Community, Socialisation
“People only need three things in life to be happy. Everyone needs someone to love. Everyone needs something to do. Everyone needs something to hope for. And there’s certainly a lot of love here in this room tonight.” These words, spoken by the Ashwood School...
by Dancing Wombat | May 6, 2016 | Achievements, Blog
At Littlest Wombat’s last swimming lesson, I bumped into a lady I’d met when Train Wombat was playing local basketball. Her son was on Train Wombat’s team, and as I had all the Wombats with me whenever we were at basketball, she had some idea of what Wombat World was...
by Dancing Wombat | May 5, 2016 | Achievements, Blog, Sensory Issues
Last week, Littlest Wombat had vowed and declared never to return to swimming lessons, unless certain conditions were met. One of these I couldn’t control; the other I could. At least he hadn’t asked me to remove the chlorine from the pool. After our conversation last...
by Dancing Wombat | Apr 7, 2016 | Achievements, Blog, Family and Community
At the start of Term 1, I wrote about the new beginnings for my four Wombats (see New beginnings). There were also new beginnings for me. Well, we’re one term down, three to go. How have we fared? Overall, things have gone well. Compared with Term 1 last year, this...
by Dancing Wombat | Mar 30, 2016 | Achievements, Blog, Identity and Belonging
I must confess that I quite like the view from the moral high ground. Don’t you? Come on – don’t be shy. I’m sure that deep down inside it makes you feel strong, empowered… better than those who you’re looking down on? Literally and metaphorically. Ahh – judging – so...
