"Despite what my children think, I was not always a mother." So Dr Bronwyn Harman starts her post " My PC Life " about ...

There has been a bit about cartoons in the "news" (my Twitter stream) lately. A study found that Sponge Bob Square Pants could lo...

When you work full-time, you are often not picking up your baby/toddler/child from daycare/after-school-care until late. And when you get ho...

I was going to post something off topic about September 11, but decided anything I said would be annoying or irrelevant. Way over here in Au...

These ones are fairly easy Now I have to warn you - I don't have much. That's because, as I have learned, there are limits to ...

Here is an interesting thing: a story on i09.com called Believing in the Tooth Fairy Can Warp Your Mind claims that children who believe in...

Some time ago, in one of my spasmodic and infrequent (and therefore doomed) attempts to beautify my home, I bought a large pot and some colo...

About time I lived up to my blog description and put some "science" up. There are so many excellent science blogs out there, writ...

I think my darling daughters need some tutoring on how to play hide and seek. They're not toddlers anymore - I have no excuses for the...

Image by dynamosquito via Flickr Creative Commons Two nights ago I saw the movie Tree of Life . I expected it to be pretentious and borin...