Whenever I go to the supermarket and there’s a box on the counter selling badges or pins or logo pens for a charity, I always end up buying a pen. I’ve got pens for almost every Australian charity there is, even doubles when the same charity fund-raises twice in the one year. But I don’t [...]

DD7 was talking about Earth Hour since yesterday afternoon. Her teacher at school must have been reminding all the kids to turn their lights off at 8pm on Saturday night. So 7.55pm, DD7 was helping me make sure all the lights were turned off. At 8.25pm, she asked if it was an hour already because [...]

Late yesterday afternoon, I was in the middle of cooking dinner when there was a knock at the door. When I opened the door, two young men were standing there with clipboards in their hands. I was tired, and annoyed that I was interrupted while trying to get dinner on the table for the babes [...]

It seems that children are losing their childhood years and innocence too quickly because of the issue with “exposing children to inappropriate sexualized imagery on a bid to sell products and make profit“. This exposure if referred to as the sexualisation of children and as parents, we want to be able to provide a safe [...]