I’d love to get your thoughts and responses to this well-crafted video – the story of your bottle of water.. It has certainly helped change my attitude to picking up a bottle of water in the local supermarket..
http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/

The bleak nature of the economy in the UK is driving some really innovative thinking of late, with parents, teachers and other organisations coming together to set up ‘free schools’ in the many disused shops that are now lining the high streets of towns and cities across the country. Small business has taken the brunt [...]

A true story..
A container truck got stuck under a low-level bridge. Why? Well because the driver simply misjudged the clearance height, wedging the massive vehicle tight under the lowest part of the bridge. He tried reversing and also slowly moving forward, but nothing gave.
What did the driver do? Well, he did what most would probably [...]

You know how the old joke goes..
Q: How do you improve your marriage? A: Lower your expectations.
Well, the same is true for children’s learning. If you have low expectations of what your child is capable of – at any age – then that is precisely what you get. Average results. Except maybe for the outspoken [...]

No parent will ever want to easily admit their child is a bully, whether online or in the ‘physical’ world. But if you do have an inkling that your child is bullying then you may well be able to do something about it. Rather than remain ignorant of what can be a very debilitating behaviour [...]

A new survey of more than 1000 Australian parents commissioned by video game maker, THQ, has found that 76% believe video games have a positive effect on their children.
South Australian children are the most active video gamers in the country, with 46% of children playing 1-2 hours a day, compared to 37% nationally. Victorian parents [...]

As most of you with teenagers know all too well, text messaging has become their preferred means of ‘chatting’ with friends.
But a new survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx) illustrates just how far US teenagers have gone along this road, with 1 in 3 US teenagers now sending more than 100 texts [...]

As we prepare for Anzac day this year, what better time to have a discussion with your kids about what it means, why we celebrate (is that the correct
word?) the occasion and what it means to our national identity.
How do you feel about Anzac Day, what does it mean to your family?
In what ways do [...]

I turned on the Today Tonight show yesterday (15 April) to find a story being run about Educateme, an application that aims to ‘give control of the computer back to parents’.
Sounds wonderful doesn’t it? A simple and not-so-cheap ($39.95) application that allows parents and carers to allocate the amount of time their children can have [...]

I’ve just attended (and presented at) a really important conference, Friday and Saturday last week (9-10 April): The 4th National Centre Against Bullying Conference.
This national conference brought together a range of the world’s leading experts, along with government, industry and the education sector, to examine the latest research and strategies to address cyberbullying. It was [...]