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Order Of Operations - Reinventing the wheel.
For the umpteenth time I've had one of those hateful memes pointed at me on social media.. you know, the ones that add and multiply a bunch of letters and declare you stupid if you get it wrong, or a genius if you pass. *sigh* OK, so I clearly don't think that the ability to be able to juggle numbers in a written expression is any proof that you ( Read more... ) -
Panic Spirals and Brain Knots
This evening I shouted at my husband. Not fair, but it happens, and from time to time he has called me on it but only now do I feel really empowered to do something to fix the problem ( Read more... ) -
Getting stressed about birth stuff.
I'm now at 40weeks +5 days. Had a scan this morning. Late scans are notoriously unreliable for estimating baby size but they think that this one is possibly in the range of 4.8kg. Stevie was born 4.55 (10lb) at 40weeks+2days. There is a lot of fluid around her, which would explain why she's so wiggly.. lots of room to move ( Read more... ) -
Goals and Strategies vs Rules
My kids have to have serious controls on their screentime because if they don't then it's all they do.. well the older one especially. It's explained to them that we have to put limits on it because it makes you sick to not be doing active things and having fun times with people ( Read more... ) -
Musings on Giftedness
I preface this by clarifying that I am relating ideas about "academic giftedness" and to a lesser extent "creative genius" as opposed to "physical giftedness" which is a whole 'nuther ballgame (and for which success is very much down to the luck of the draw).
I have done a lot of unpacking about "genius" and "giftedness" as they were labels I had ( Read more... ) -
Hiding a Baby's Gender
In reply to this parenting blog about a child whose parents are not disclosing the baby's gender:
Sex and gender are different things. There are physical characteristics that are inherent in being male or female and there are people who are born sexually ambiguous. Human beings are influenced by hormones that give us drives and affect our behaviour.
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Justice - an email to RadioNZ
This evening RadioNZ Nights with Bryan Crump had a theme on "Justice" and asked for submissions on the themes "I was framed" or "I got away with it" so I made a submission, which he enjoyed and read out online:
When I was younger I was working for a company that won a contract
with a large mall franchise. They didn't operate it very well and I
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Perfectionsism[sic] - a crosspost from a mailing list
As a perfectionist myself I have long pondered how to minimise this trait in my kids.
Model failure. If you make a wrong turn when driving somewhere acknowledge it in a light-hearted way and explain your coping process. "Oop... I went the wrong way. Oh well, I'll just go back and find the other road... heh heh this way we get to see a bit more of ( Read more... ) -
Things what I have learned and done in 2011
I have been doing thingses since I moved to the Manawatu:- Learned my way around Feilding and Palmerston North.
- Made regular contact with 5 new families with kids.
- Looking after chickens
- learned what chickens like to eat
- put leg rings on 10 chickens
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Enfarminated
On Friday I moved into a relatively comfy one-bedroom flat on a fairly derelict lifestyle block just out of Awahuri in the Manawatu.
When I was a kid I used to go to summer holidays at my grandparents' place by the beach and they used to refer to the couple of days that it takes you to become "beachified". I have been here in Awahuri for nearly a ( Read more... )