![Back home after a month away. It was a month of connecting with families – Steve’s at the family holiday house, and mine when Duncan, Becky and their little boys […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_9448-3-beach-621x250.jpg "Connections")
![Lara and Rhea went to their first live concert at the age of thirteen, but they don’t play any instruments themselves anymore. We organized for both of them to learn […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_7936-476x250.jpg "Not playing")
![I have been enjoying a couple of new podcasts recently. The first is called Read This, with interviews of writers, many of them Australian. The second is Wiser than Me […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_9245-640x250.jpg "Listening to them")
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![Before I start a six-month secondment, I’ve had a break from work for three-and-a-half weeks. I started with four days in Noosa enjoying the beach, restaurants, company of my parents, […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_9119-3-476x250.jpg "Winterlude")
![These school holidays, towards the end of our two-week stay with Steve’s mum in Melbourne, we had a night with Jessie at her acre block just outside Warragul. We hadn’t […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8946-1-455x250.jpg "Family and community")
![In the depths of winter, the girls had their individual sleepover birthday parties, sandwiched by the family afternoon tea. The organizing and catering were less demanding for me given […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rocks-Lara-E-K-IMG_8902-469x250.jpg "Covering some ground")
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![There are three things that I don’t enjoy about having young children. The disturbed sleep. The early morning rises. And the mess. The mess was minimal when the girls were […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pram2-115x115.jpg "Walk, Run, Climb")
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Posted on October 30, 2011 | 1 CommentIn many relationships there is a dominant person, and in the case of Lara and Rhea it is no secret that up until now Rhea has been the dominant one. […] -
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Posted on September 25, 2011 | No Comments– ‘How quickly does twenty years go?’ He had been a friendly boy but I doubt I had exchanged a word with him when we were at school together. We […] -
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Leaps and bounds
Posted on August 28, 2011 | No CommentsWhen does a baby become a toddler? My local baby centre nurses are adamant that the transformation occurs at the age of one (at their 12-month checkups: ‘I knew these […] -
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Up late: update
Posted on July 31, 2011 | No CommentsWe stuck to our plan, more or less, and enrolled in a seminar for parents of older babies who sleep poorly. I never got around to doing the internet research […] -
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Sick babies = tired parents
Posted on June 26, 2011 | No CommentsLara and Rhea have turned one, and I went back to work part-time last week. We’ve started another chapter in their lives and another routine for all of us. The […] -
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Posted on May 29, 2011 | No CommentsThe babies are now nearly one year old. They have grown from loose-fitting 00000-sized clothes to a respectable size 0. That journey, as much as anything, has been about food. […] -
![Since Steve went back to work two months ago, one of the biggest changes to our lives has been the busyness of our weekends. Like most families, weekends are when […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/winery-115x115.jpg "A fruitful Sunday afternoon")
A fruitful Sunday afternoon
Posted on April 24, 2011 | No CommentsSince Steve went back to work two months ago, one of the biggest changes to our lives has been the busyness of our weekends. Like most families, weekends are when […] -
![People are starting to ask me whether the babies’ personality differences are becoming more apparent. We don’t want to label and stereotype them for their future years, so we don’t […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/chuckles11-115x115.jpg "Chuckles")
Chuckles
Posted on March 27, 2011 | 1 CommentPeople are starting to ask me whether the babies’ personality differences are becoming more apparent. We don’t want to label and stereotype them for their future years, so we don’t […] -
![We planted an apricot tree and two plum trees four years ago: one satsuma plum and one blood plum. The plum trees were productive from the second year, and this […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/plums-115x115.jpg "Plumming")
Plumming
Posted on February 27, 2011 | No CommentsWe planted an apricot tree and two plum trees four years ago: one satsuma plum and one blood plum. The plum trees were productive from the second year, and this […]