Life’s A Weekend!

- home educating in Hamilton, NZ

NJ’s Solution

N7 is cheerfully peeling the carrots and onion for tea [evening meal] when his eyes started ‘crying’.
He rushes over to the other bench, where ‘things’ get plonked as you come in the door [most people have a bench/place like this, don’t they?!], then back to his work station and the onion.
Here he is - wearing […]

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Support for Mothers of Preschoolers

I was an ‘older’ mother when I had my two - hadn’t changed a nappy (USA=diaper) until my girl was born! I got involved with MOPS - Mothers of Preschoolers.
New Zealand is an affiliate country of MOPS International, HQ in Colorado. There’s 2900 groups across USA and globally in 35 countries.
Children get cared for […]

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gotta look

http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky
Wow! what a wonderful resource on New Zealand - geology, seashells, birds, and on and on.
This is the Encyclopaedia of NZ.
off to have another look …

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See .. Think .. Do

Businesses decide on mission statements; churches may write up vision statements; and families - well, often they just cruise along and one year blends into another.
Some parents consciously teach their children traditions, values and acceptable behaviours; other parents just let the kids ‘catch on’.
What’s important in your household? What do you aim for - […]

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