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  Private or Public?

  Go public - the education system here sucks anyway - just look at the skills shortage.  If education is THAT important then move to Canberra or Europe, but your child's education is a function of the school plus the parents, so if you take on your side of the responsibility then you won't have to worry about bub having to come to terms with the seemingly bizarre facts of Gen Y life: rubber grows on trees/money doesn't

  Posted 11 Jun 07

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  Chicken Pox

  according to Wikipedia the vaccine is not absolutely effective particularly after 5 years but tests (i.e. prenatal) can indicate a  requirement for re-vaccination.  Most people who are re-infected were immune compromised in the first place: elderly, effected by immuno-suppressant symptoms or drugs such as chemotherapy, etc...people, i.e. children, with eczema are more prone to re-infection too.

   That will be $50 

  Posted 16 Apr 07

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  AAARRRGGGHHH!

  Sounds very very familiar.  I always try to keep them awake in the car and let them sleep at home - I'm almost obsessive about it, to the extent that I don't like taking them out to lunch anywhere because i don't want to upset their routine.  My daughter is 3 and tends to fight the midday sleep but my son is older and still likes a nap.  There is no certain strategy but what works best for us is: 1. lots of carbs at lunch, no TV at all, books before nap (which you've tried)...all after a very active morning.  I sometimes lie on the bed with my daughter too and she falls asleep on my shoulder pretty quickly, which says a lot about my personality.

   The only inducement that sometimes works is a promise of an 'adventure' in the afternoon, contingent on everybody having a sleep. 

  Posted 18 Mar 07

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  Kids' Parties

  We've been particularly adept at avoiding the party soap opera...our kids are still too young at school, so I guess that helps, and the preschool has not created too many invites.  At home we just have ourselves and a cake, sometiimes with immediate family, but our reluctance to invite a wider group is informed by our general reluctance to go to children's birthday parties..we assume that everybody else, like us, finds the party situation a pain in the arse and they would rather not be invited.

   however, we do organise a babysitter and go out to dinner to mark the occasion of a child's birthday

  Posted 14 Mar 07