Image by Marsel Minga One recent Saturday morning I was so stressed out just thinking about what we had to do that day. We schedule our children’s sports activities for Saturdays and so we had swimming and basketball as we usually do, but I’d also booked us all in to see our dentist whose surgery…
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Do parents find their smart phones more interesting than their kids?
Image by Garry Knight. Article originally published in The Catholic Weekly under a different headline. Like most people I know I use my mobile phone a lot, less for making calls and more to see the time, check for email messages, or look up my favourite websites. I was surprised though to read that according…
Good time management means sometimes ditching the to-do list
This is a post I wrote in 2011. I have better time management skills now and it has a lot to do with having realistic expectations of what I can do at any given time. It was a great lesson and obviously one that I’ve since been able to learn. ****************** I thought I’d learnt this…
Be a peaceful (sometimes silly) parent
It’s Father’s Day in Australia where we live – so Happy Father’s Day dads! Here’s a little thing I wrote which tells a bit about my kids’ dad: My children have a silly uncle. That’s what they say anyway. “He’s so silly, he’s always trying to trick us,” they say. One time one of them lost…
Marilyn Rodrigues 