Zeke’s paws are scratching. He’s dreaming.  His body twitching.  I steal a glance at the clock.  1:15 am.  I smile. You go from refusing a dog for 20 years, to the animal taking center stage on your bed. Every night.  What a tough guy.

He knows.  Dogs have a second sense.  Even when he’s sleeping, he hears.

Car door shuts.  It’s Rachel.  Rolling in from her evening out.

I lumber down to her room.  Bathroom door is closed.  Water is running.  I lie down on her bed.  Stare at the ceiling.  And wait.

Mind whirs back to a moment during the week.  I’m driving into Manhattan.  Rush hour.  Traffic stalled.  GPS flashes a 3-mile backup to the Triboro bridge.  Beach Avenue and Bruckner.  Young girl is holding her Dad’s hand.  They are crossing the walkway over I-278.  Her passion pink backpack sharply contrasting with the streaks of graffiti.  The pair offering up a burst of illumination against the grey of the housing projects and the trash lining the freeway.  Their hands and arms sway in unison.  Dad smiling.    She’s skipping to keep up.

That day, Mind was crocheting stitches of a majestic tapestry. One of family.  Of warm spring days.  Of light breezes.  All storm clouds pushed way south.  And the Moment hovered.  All week.

Why this moment?  This was not an impressionist by Monet.  Not a intricate passage by Joyce or a dreamy segue by Murakami. No deep existential words here by Kierkegaard.  Not  a big win at Work.  A Father. A daughter.  A pink backpack.  Walking over a dilapidated bridge in the Projects.

“What are you doing up Dad.”

“Heard you come in Honey.”

She wearily slumps into bed. Bundles herself up in her comforter.  Fluffs her pillow to get it just right.

Her breathing settles in to a slow rhythm. In. Out. In. Out. In. Out. Noisily at first. Then reduces to a soft whisper.

I lean over to kiss her on the forehead.  The smell of her hair triggers a memory.  Baby smell.  She used to fall asleep on my chest.  Her little puffs of breath warming me.  Her heart beating on mine.

I glance at her clock.

1:49 am.

Please.  Let time stop now.

Freeze.

Right Here.

This moment.

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Created by Victoria Cramsie, the mother of boys herself, PaperBoy has been all about great patterns suitable for children’s rooms since its launch. As you’d guess from the name, there are plenty of designs for boys to choose from but also many that would appeal to girls and look great in games / play rooms.

My current favourite is this ever-so-slightly edgy Stripes design, with its graffiti-style spray paint effect:

It’s a Puzzle, below, also has a graphic look:

For the pictorial papers, such as The Final Frontier, below, the artwork is detailed: there’s lots to look at, yet the clever colour choices help the papers avoid that headache-inducing busy-ness of so many kids’ interior products:

These dashing Spitfires are given a modern splash in warm scarlet:

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The designs come as wallpapers, and now as fabrics by the metre too, with each one available in a choice of colourways. Click here on PaperBoy for more information.

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It is very important to get a true evaluation of ourselves since more times than not some of the things that take place in our daily lives reflect us. (This is hard to accept).

But let us take note of some quiet persons in our surroundings. How often do we see these people with a sad countenance or in a quarrel with or even about anyone.

Let us try stepping out of ourselves and observe ourselves at work. Block out all others. Look at the manner in which we talk down to others but take offense when the same is returned.

Look at the greed we have for power and attention. In doing so we seek all that will make others as unhappy. (Happy people make other people happy too).

God made us in His image. We are his children. He gave us the power to choose our behaviour. We can be happy if we choose to be happy. There is no need for us to be in conflicts and contention daily, let alone to blame others for it. If we are adults then we are responsible for our behaviours, so let us stop blaming others.

-Hillary Senior

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Like most boys his age, Big Brother loves super-heroes. He’s not too fussy about which ones, although Spiderman and Batman are probably his favourites. So his answer shouldn’t have come as a shock to me when, a few months ago, I asked the fateful question: “Shall we have a birthday party for you this year?”

“A super-hero party!” Big Brother said, with the type of enthusiasm usually reserved for… well, super-hero parties, I suppose.

“Sure,” I said, in that Mummy-tone way that actually means: “I’m not sure, actually. But it’s a few months away. And maybe you’ll change your mind between now and then.”

But he didn’t. So, two weeks before his birthday, I had to actually admit to myself that it was going to happen. We were going to have a super-hero party for him and his school friends.

The trouble is, I suck at children’s parties. I’m no good at running party games (as I discovered a year ago, when Big Brother turned five). And the idea of a group of five and six-year-old boys running pell-mell around the house without direction or parental control fills me with the kind of dread usually reserved for… well, children’s parties.

But do you what I don’t suck at?

Storytelling.

So the challenge was: How do I turn Big Brother’s 6th birthday from a super-hero party into a super-hero story?

As it turns out, it was easier than it sounds.

We had the birthday party in a local park on a Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago. (Several hours after Big Brother woke me up by excitedly yelling, “Mummy! It’s my birthday! And I’m six years old!!) Four of Big Brother’s school friends were there, along with their parents and three little sisters.

“Do you like super-heroes?” I asked the children. “And would you like to be a super-hero?”

With two resounding answers of Yes!, we started the day’s activities.

All the children sat down, and I gave them each a plain white t-shirt and some fabric markers to design their own super-hero costume. When that was done, they moved to the next table to colour in their own super-hero mask.

The children loved it. So did the parents — some of whom spent more time designing the costumes than their children did. (If I did this again, I’d definitely have adult-sized shirts on hand as well!)

We had a Neo-Flash, a Neo-Batman, a Neo-Superman, Z-Man, and the Golden Arm of Justice. (Also a couple of Princesses and Fairy Queens.) When the children were dressed in their costumes, they super-heroed around for a while until everyone was done. And then we moved on to the next part of the party.

“Do you like stories?” I asked.

Another resounding Yes!

So I gathered the children together, and we sat down in a circle on the grass for a story.

“This is the story of Rocky the Rabbit,” I began. “Rocky the Rabbit was a very special rabbit. He wasn’t a flesh and blood rabbit living in a field. No, he was something much better. He was a money-box rabbit living in a playroom. And at night, when all the children had gone to bed and the toys came out to have their own adventures, Rocky the Rabbit dreamed of being a super-hero.”

And then I told them the story of Rocky the Rabbit — a story I wrote for the occasion.

Rocky the Rabbit wanted to be a super-hero, but he didn’t have any super-powers. But during the course of the story, he rushed to try to help everyone who needed him. And at the end of the story the toys all gathered together to throw a party of Rocky.

“But I’m not a super-hero,” Rocky said. “I’m not super-fast, and I’m not super-strong, and I can’t even fly.”

“You may not be super-fast,” said the toys. “And you may not be super-strong. And you certainly can’t fly. But when you heard someone calling for help, you hop-hop-hopped over as fast as you could, and you found a way to help them. And that’s what makes a real super-hero.”

And then the toys presented Rocky the Rabbit with his very own shiny cape. And from then on, every night after the children had gone to sleep, Rocky the Rabbit would put on his cape and hop-hop-hop around the playroom, looking for people to help. Because he really was a super-hero.

The children loved it.

And when the story was done, I presented each of the children with their very own shiny cape. We attached them to the back of the super-hero shirts, and off they flew to do super-heroic things.

Soon after, we gathered the children together so Big Brother could open his presents. And then we had cake.

Or cakes. With an s.

For some reason, I decided on the spur of the moment that cupcakes would be a better idea than a large cake.

Do you have any idea how long it takes to decorate 30 cupcakes?

A long time.

But the children loved them, and that’s the important part. In fact, the hard part was getting the children to leave them alone until after the candles had been blown out and the birthday song sung. Then they attacked the cupcakes with gusto, everyone grabbing the symbol of their favourite super-hero.

So I count the decorating as time well spent.

After cake had been consumed, it was almost time to wrap up the story party. So I called all the children over and told them we had a little present for each of them to say thank you for coming to Big Brother’s birthday.

Once the children had all lined up, excited faces and hands outstretched, I tried to open the box of goodies.

But it wouldn’t budge.

“Oh no,” I said. “It seems to be stuck.”

I tried again to no avail. “Wait. There’s a letter here.”

The children watched with wide eyes as I read it out.

Dear super-heroes,
Ha ha ha. I have locked your presents away in this box and sealed them in there with my magic power ring. I’ve hidden all the other magic power rings in the world, so now you will never get your presents. Ha ha ha.
Your sincerely,
Super-villain X.

“Oh no!” I cried. “What will we do?!”

The littlest super-heroes got it straight away. “We have to find the magic power rings!”

And off they went, running as though their presents lives depended on it. They searched high and low, around trees and benches and fences. And before long, they all had at least one magic power ring to their name. (Some had as many as six. Trust me, you can’t have too many magic power rings.)

When the children were all back, I got them to all line up. “Maybe if we all point out magic power rings at the box and say the magic words really, really loudly… Does anyone know any magic words?”

“Abracadabra!”

“Monkeys!”

“Please!” (Bless. Not my child, but he had the best magic word of them all.)

We worked out a combination of magic words, and then all the children pointed their rings at the box and yelled and –

– it worked!

The box opened.

And I gave everyone their party favour: a real Rocky the Rabbit money-box.

Complete with cape.

The children flew their Rocky the Rabbits around for a while, and then it was time for everyone to go home.

It was a great morning, and everyone enjoyed themselves.

As everyone was leaving, one of the parents said to me, “This was great. I can’t wait to see what you do next year!”

Right. Next year.

You mean children have more than one birthday?!

What have I gotten myself into…

Have you had any particularly good (or bad) children’s birthday party experiences?

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The Howrah Train Station, where over 10,000 people come through, every single day. Also, the home to hundreds of child. We would daily go there and try to find new children to tell about the center- but most that we told never came, because they were too high on glue (a way to numb their pain) and forget about our conversation. It hurt my heart to see these children, newborns on up, living their lives in a train station- begging, stealing and collection empty water bottles for a little money. Only to repeat the cycle…

If you are taking a road trip with toddlers or very young children, you must be willing to make frequent stops. This helps to avoid boredom, irritability and frustration. Rather then dash to your destination, taking a leisurely route will often result in a more peaceful trip. You can stop by a park, a restaurant or a rest area, and allow the children to run around and get out some of their bottled up energy.

One great way to start saving for college early is by contributing to a tax-deferred 529 educational savings plan. These savings plans are state operated, and intended to assist you in saving towards college tuition. You might have a chart with 25 spaces that get filled each time the child completes the task successfully. Let your child know he will get a reward when the chart has been filled. Young minds need reinforcement for good behavior and will work toward a goal if it is a concrete one that can be clearly seen and understood.

Listening to your children is one way to be an excellent parent. Give them the ability to talk to you and learn about things that interest them. If this is done, it will be easier for them to discuss serious issues with you.

A great way to achieve your goal is to establish a savings goal for the year and then to actually stick to it. Above all, you must resist the urge to use money from the college fund for other expenses.

Try to establish and adhere to a routine each night when it is time to get your child ready for bed. A regular bedtime routine will help transition your child’s mindset from playtime to bedtime. He or she will associate the nightly routine of bathing, pajamas and story-time with an impending bedtime. There will be less resistance at bedtime if your child is aware of what to expect.

Remember that not every child has a gregarious personality. There are many children who are much more introverted, which is perfectly acceptable. However, you may want to take note if your child appears to be unnaturally withdrawn. This may be the time to take your child to the doctor to see if there are any psychological issues that can be corrected.

Children enjoy playing. They need playtime. Effective parenting also includes setting aside some of your own time to play with them.

As easy as it might be to say “yes” every time a young child asks for things, resist falling into that habit. It is okay to give in sometimes, but make sure it is on your terms. Otherwise, your child may believe that he or she is in total control and that you can be easily persuaded to change your mind.

Being interested in making your parenting skills better shows you already have interest in improving; this article will give you practical advice to help boost your confidence. You can always learn more about being a good parent.

Parenting: A Wonderful Experience If Done Right

Stick with your child’s established eating and sleeping schedule as best you can when you are traveling with him or her. Traveling can be scary and stressful for young children. Maintaining the same schedule and rituals as you do at home will allow your child to settle in his or her new environment, ideally letting everyone get plenty of sleep.

If your child has ADHD or a similar condition, it is important that you keep him or her busy. These children have tons of energy and they can misbehave if they are not kept busy. Bring your child to the park or have him ride a bike to burn off excess energy.

When you are trying to teach your young child to do a new thing, use a chart to document each time he accomplishes it. A good example is keeping a chart and adding a sticker to it every time the new task is done correctly. The child will get a reward when the chart has been completed. Young minds need reinforcement for good behavior and will work toward a goal if it is a concrete one that can be clearly seen and understood.

If you adopted your child, your child is probably going to find out at some point and start asking questions. Adopted children are going to have questions and will look to you for the answers. They will resent you if you do not tell them the truth about where they came from.

Once your toddler grows to be 36 inches tall or can get out of the crib without help, it is probably the right time to transition to a bed for toddlers. Because making this change may be frightening, help make it less threatening. Perhaps it would be helpful to buy a new set of sheets that features a favorite character.

As a parent, one of the best things you can do for your child is simply to listen. Let them speak to you and figure out what it is that they’re wanting. If you develop an open relationship with your children, they’ll be able to talk to you as they get older about important events in their lives.

A great way to achieve your goal is to establish a savings goal for the year and then to actually stick to it. Above all, you must resist the urge to use money from the college fund for other expenses.

If you’re pregnant with your second or third child, be aware that sometimes you must make choices. The neediest child is the one that has to be taken care of first, while the other child must learn that he or she is still loved and has to be patient for his or her turn. Now that you understand why, disregarding the other child should not cause you to feel guilty.

Remember that not every child has a gregarious personality. There are many children who are much more introverted, which is perfectly acceptable. All Your Parenting Questions Answered Here, Tricks To Help You With Parenting Now And In The Future

I write about subjects that I want people to think about. I am not a facts and figures person. It doesn’t matter to me if 3,647 people were raped by priests, Cardinal, Bishops and the like or that it is 4,238 people raped. What matters is that many children were raped or molested. That every child has a voice and that every perpetrator is found guilty and suffers as much as they have caused the suffering of others. This will never happen because the children never had a voice and only now as adults are they coming forward, often at the encouragement of wives and friends. The perpetrators are now mostly old men, so no amount of punitive action will compensate. If such a thing had happened to a child of mine, I’d gladly string the perpetrator up by his penis and scrotum; similar to what they did to Mussolini. Harsh? I don’t think so. But I wouldn’t kill him.

I don’t only have the Catholic Church in my sights, but it is the Catholic Church that makes me feel the sickest because they have known right from the top what was going on and priests were merely moved to another diocese to perpetrate again and again. The child got nothing or a rebuke. It is beyond my understanding that anyone can have any faith in this religion. Sure there are some priests doing some good things, but you don’t have to be a priest to do good things. Anyone can help people in need. If you want to believe in Jesus, you can without being a Catholic. If you want to pray, you can without being a Catholic. Anyone can pray and if you believe it is doing some good, then keep on praying. I pray myself, just not to the god of Israel. I’m Australian, why would I pray to the god of Israel? Why would anyone pray to the god of Israel, other than the Jews? But many Christians hate Jews. Why is that? Why bother to be Christian and hate anyone? There is no one in the world that I hate. I dislike some people. I dislike George B*sh. I dislike Islamic Fundamentalists. I dislike people who torture people and animals. I dislike liars and of course I dislike paedophiles. But Christians actually kill people they hate, without even knowing the person personally. This is a very difficult thing to understand for a peace loving non-Christian. The Catholics kill Protestants in Ireland. You may well point out that Protestants also kill Catholics. Anyone but me think this is very weird when both are Christians? Both read from the same bible, worship the god of Israel and both are supposed to follow the Ten Commandments; one of which is: Thou Shalt NOT kill. Not, Thou Shall Kill thy enemy.

The Pope, Cardinals, Bishops and priests set themselves as superior to their followers and congregation. They behave piously in the church building, sanctimoniously preaching nonsense that no one can contradict in their pews. They tell their congregation how they must behave, as if they can’t work this out for themselves. From time to time I attend a church service just to see if things have changed. But sadly they have not. I went to the Anglican church (Cathedral) in Sydney last and the sermon the Arch Bishop gave was about as stupid as anything I have ever heard. He said that ALL fathers are bad fathers. He repeated this several times, I think it was 8 times in all. Was he judging all fathers on his own fathering skills? He doesn’t know all fathers, how absurd. I wrote to him challenging him on his sermon. I asked him if he had met every father in the world, or even in Sydney. I asked him how he could judge every father without knowing them personally. Did I receive a reply. NO!

No, because he had been called out on his stupidity and false assumptions. He didn’t have the guts to reply and I only wish I had had the guts to stand up in front of the congregation and say my piece. I told my daughter that I was going to stand up and interrupt him, but she begged me not to. I wish I had asked her to wait outside and gone ahead anyway. Why do these miserable women need to be told that their husbands are bad fathers? How did the fathers in the congregation feel being told they are bad fathers, without any proof or justification? But I bet all those good fathers were back in church the very next Sunday like robots. I found a congregation who can’t think for themselves, who sit there praying trite prayers, singing the same old hymns and I wonder if they ever think that their god of Israel ever gets sick of hearing the same old prayers and hymns week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade and millennia after millennia. Or don’t they think past the mundane?

Every time I go to a church service, regardless of the denomination, I am shocked at the level of ignorance. I am shocked at the amount of money spent on maintenance of the church and of the clergy; the little they have to do to earn their keep and the criticism of their congregation. When does a priest ever say, “well done so and so, you have been a great mother, or a great humanitarian?” When has a priest ever recognised a woman to be his superior? When will the Roman Catholic Church ever recognise women as wise women, wiser than they? How can women go on century after century, right into the 21st century, perpetuating a patriarchal society and the myth that men are superior to women? Things need to change and the best way would be for the church to fall over, disintegrate and self-combust. IMHO.