• Parenting,  Sunshine Coast

    The Wise Words of Dave Rafter

    On ‘Packed to the Rafters’ this week, Dave narrated the story line.    He talked about trying to match their head with their heart with regard to one of the hardest decisions he and Julie would have to make in their lives.   They had rationally and logically decided to sell their family home.  They desired to live in this home until they were old, but their plans were to take a different course when they realised Ted, Julie’s dad, had accidently spent his life savings while playing an internet game. Ted is an alzheimer’s sufferer, and has reached a point where the Rafter’s have no choice, but to put him…

  • Parenting,  parenting teenagers,  school

    Raising Boys

    I am the mother of four children – three girls and one little boy.   While we planned and desired number four – when I was told the gender of the baby was going to be a boy, I have to admit that I panicked.   A part of me was excited, but the other part of me was petrified.  What the heck do you do with a boy?    They are so different to girls.   I have friends with boys and I must admit that I used to think how blessed I was to have girls.  Their boys were strange, a little crazy, and did many things that…