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The Most Important Job in the World

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Emergency Services Expo: Fun in the Sun

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Parenting While Sick

Parenting toddlers is challenging at the best of times. When you are sick (not to mention when your spouse and child are sick along with you!), the challenge is multiplied by several magnitudes. But your children still need to be fed, cleaned and occupied. How do you handle this?

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Staying Calm with Annoying Toddlers

Parenting – and teaching – takes oodles of patience, which one is usually short of when sleep-deprived, as parents of toddlers usually are. So, how do we keep our cool and model patience to our toddlers?

Fabulous Farm Adventures

We spent three happy hours exploring the animal farm, and even had time to visit a strawberry farm nearby afterward!

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Equally Loved

When we discovered that Baby 2 was on her way, we were delighted, but also a tad concerned about how Baby 1 would react. Now, by and large, our progeny co-exist joyfully, taking delight in each other’s existence. We are careful to treat them as equally or equitably as possible.

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Theme Park Fun: Tiny Tots at Aussie World

Family-friendly attractions often have good deals for toddlers before they turn three, or five. Aussie World at the Sunshine Coast admits children for free up to two years old, so we whisked our infants off to the theme park for Tiny Tots Thursday.

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The Joy of Kite-Flying

When I was little, my father introduced me to the joy of kite-flying. He told me stories of his boyhood, when he grew up in a dilapidated, bombed-out mansion with a high tower, from which he flew his homemade kite.

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Little Ones and Screens

How do you navigate the use of digital devices among your offspring? Is it possible to moderate screen use, or does prohibition work better?

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