Category: learning new stuff

When Juniordwarf was a baby, and I was still on maternity leave, we started water orientation classes with some of the other mothers and babies in our mothers group. While the other babies really took to the pool, and had a great time, Juniordwarf was very reluctant and he...

Slabs and I did parent help at Juniordwarf’s school today. Last term we both did a morning each, and I really enjoyed my time with the class, so I was looking forward to today. This time we thought it would be a fun thing for both of us to...

This term Juniordwarf has started bringing home ‘home readers’ from school. The explanatory note from his teacher said that the books have ‘simple and often repetitive texts’ and that the aim is ‘to encourage children to develop a positive attitide to reading, develop confidence in their own ability and...

As well as being a talented artist, my grandmother played the piano. When Lil Sis and I were young, one of our family traditions was that we’d all get in the car and drive to our grandparents house on Sunday afternoons. They lived in a huge house in what...

What else follows tea, if not biscuits? On Tuesdays Juniordwarf and I cook biscuits for him to take to school for morning tea over the rest of the week. Ever since the start of the year, we’ve made ANZACs. Every single Tuesday. He now knows the recipe word-perfect, gets...

I thought I’d use the opportunity to participate in Kim’s Sunday Selections project to show off some of the Hipstamatic photos I took this week. On Monday I wrote about how, at the suggestion of one of my Twitter friends, I was going to use the Hipstamatic app for...

Juniordwarf and I took Sleepydog for a walk today. It’s a habit I’m trying to get us into now he’s bigger and I feel more confident he’s not going to take off somewhere. Juniordwarf usually holds my hand on our walk and he narrates where we’re going somewhat in...

I have several friends and a sister who are all cardmakers. I mean cardmakers as opposed to people who make cards, which is what I do (in the same way that I am not a photographer, I take photos). Sometimes. When I can be bothered. Or if there is...

Juniordwarf hasn’t played with a lot of technology. He can operate his little CD player and the DVD player (with a nervous parent or two supervising). I gave him a old computer keyboard that he does his ‘work’ on. (He doesn’t say what his work actually is; it’s just...

Slabs and I are often entertained by Juniordwarf playing out various scenarios from his school day. One of his recent favourites is to announce that it’s now story time and one of us (me, usually) has to come and sit on the mat. He then sets up his chair...