by Dancing Wombat | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Life Skills
This blog’s a bit longer than usual. Do you have a cuppa? Glass of milk and some chocolate? Or something stronger? Good. Read on. Train Wombat (now in Year 9) started catching the train by himself in Grade 4. While some other parents looked at me askance, I was...
by Dancing Wombat | Apr 16, 2016 | Blog, Coping Strategies, Family and Community
Did I say Littlest Wombat seems to have settled in reasonably well at school? How foolish. I jinxed myself. The first few mornings of the new term have been nothing if not nightmarish. A week might be a long time in politics but it seems an age in Wombat world. Have...
by Dancing Wombat | Feb 28, 2016 | Blog, Coping Strategies, Health and Fitness, Life Skills
Teenage boys. Stereotypically stinky, surly, and sure of themselves. Untidy, unkempt and uncouth. Assertively independent and sometimes aggressively insulting. Boy (no pun intended!) – they can be challenging. As a parent, how much do you ignore all this and let it...
