Review: The Wonderful World was Waiting

“With fondness I remembered all the magic of mundane.” Never has a sentence resonated more. As we have begun to … More

Just Another Phase?

Terrible Twos? Threenager? What more does the developmental continuum have to throw at us? Just when I thought I had … More

A Children’s Guide to Understanding the Coronavirus I’ve spent my twenty year career trying to break down concepts to children, … More

Resilience is the frequent adjective I’ve used to describe children throughout covid. “They’ll bounce back!” “They’ll jump back in to … More

Another day in lockdown… another twelve hours to kill with a preschooler. Another twelve hours of trying to entice him … More

Well. That’s scarred us both for life. He’s left with some 80’s style tramlines and I’m part tempted to hit … More

Science was never my speciality at school. To say that concepts of matter and mass confounded me would be an … More

Today saw the end of Lockdown Version 2.0. Will there be a V3.0? Chances are high for January I’d say … More

Old Me, New Me… Just Me. The old Karen could run 12 kilometres home, after a day at work. Old … More

We are in lockdown but today we celebrated freedom. Locked-down freedom. Does that still count? Semi-freedom? Frockdown? Lockdom? Whatever you … More