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Dizzy Parenting: Secret Mums' Business
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Thursday, October 2, 2008. I have a confession. Today I took secret pleasure in Another Parent’s Shame. A woman about my age, with a boy and a girl about my childrens’ age, looked extremely harassed at the supermarket checkout. She had flushed cheeks, angry eyes, a frown like you wouldn’t believe, mussed-up hair, and was wearing the uniform of stressed-out school holiday mums – tracky dacks and a stained baggy T-shirt. But my heart went out to her, it did. For there, but for the Grace of God, went I.
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Dizzy Parenting: June 2008
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Thursday, June 26, 2008. Kids, cats, and breakfast. Lolly Cat - "Wake me up again and I'll have to scratch you". Below: Harmonie at her school's Healthy Breakfast. Hope your week was as good as ours! Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Hypoxi - hype or hot? So there I was. Trussed up in what felt like a rubber mini-skirt, heart-rate monitor attached to my chest, heat monitor tied around one thigh. A Indulging in some kind of bizarre sexual activity? B Undergoing a strange and kinky medical examination? I didn't ex...
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Dizzy Parenting: September 2008
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Monday, September 22, 2008. The Undomestic Goddess Strikes Again. Since we've relocated to New Zealand, I've been playing housewife for a change. That means as well as packing, unpacking, and schlepping kids across the city, I've taken on more of the cooking duties. Normally, Kyle cooks the evening meal, and as my waistline proves, he's a dab hand at it too. But while I'm waiting for the net and phone to be connected (and therefore to start work), I thought I'd take over the cooking detail for a while.
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Dizzy Parenting: The Undomestic Goddess Strikes Again
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Monday, September 22, 2008. The Undomestic Goddess Strikes Again. Since we've relocated to New Zealand, I've been playing housewife for a change. That means as well as packing, unpacking, and schlepping kids across the city, I've taken on more of the cooking duties. Normally, Kyle cooks the evening meal, and as my waistline proves, he's a dab hand at it too. But while I'm waiting for the net and phone to be connected (and therefore to start work), I thought I'd take over the cooking detail for a while.
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Dizzy Parenting: In memory of Nia
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008. In memory of Nia. I told myself I wouldn’t read it. For weeks, horrifying details of the nightmare that was little Nia Glassie’s life, have played out in the New Zealand press. Like the rest of the country, I’ve been sickened by the reports, yet somehow, unable to look away. How could anyone not just hurt, but torture an innocent child? How could a mother stand by and allow her child to be tormented and abused and yet, do nothing? I know I will. If you want to know more about ...
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Dizzy Parenting: Lunchbox love
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008. How do I know this? The other day, when I was putting the school lunches together, H. asked me not to put hers in a clear lunch box. Cos otherwise the other kids see what's in it, and try to steal it. They're always trying to take my food.". How fabulous, I thought. Not that other kids want to eat my daughter's lunch, but that it actually IS good enough to eat. Thankfully, it was all sorted out after a word with the teacher. Granted, I do make an extra effort with my lunches.
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Dizzy Parenting: December 2008
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Saturday, December 27, 2008. Since I moved to Auckland, Dizzy Parenting has kind of morphed into www.aussiesinauckland.blogspot. Visit us there for more of the same, plus an insight into life in New Zealand. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Vote for me on webbieworld. Just click on the logo. Brisbane mum and family swap the River City for the City of Sails. Will she soon be saying 'sex' for 'six', and 'kuds' for 'kids'? View my complete profile. Http:/ dizzyingdivorce.blogspot.com.
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Dizzy Parenting: July 2008
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Parks, pademelons and furry pigs - kind of! Harmonie on the flying fox - another, non-animal, attraction at Queens Park. Our kids have been to lots of wildlife parks over the years. Dreamworld, Australia Zoo, Lone Pine Sanctuary, the Cairns Rainforest Dome, Melbourne Zoo, Canberra Zoo – they’ve seen them all. Sometimes more than once! And they are avid fans of Bindi Irwin’s Jungle Girl TV show. But that doesn’t mean all that information stays in their heads. 8220;Look Mum,. 8220;O...
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Dizzy Parenting: Why my daughter is traumatised
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Thursday, October 9, 2008. Why my daughter is traumatised. Like most kids, H. has a favourite toy she absolutely adores. It was a Baby Amore dolly she got for Christmas last year. This doll cries like a baby, then stops when she is fed her bottle or given a dummy. She even 'breathes', with her chest moving up and down, as she sleeps. Of course, H's baby had to come to Auckland with her, and she's spent many happy hours carrying her around and fussing over her. This is what Baby Amore looks like usually.