Pageant Celebrates the Clown Within
This year, the organisers of the Credit Union Christmas Pageant are inviting South Australians to celebrate the clown within. In what is promising to be a day of great fun and silliness, the Pageant will travel a 3.2km route through Adelaide on Saturday 12 November, from 9.30am. Continue reading
Egg rings and scars
Almost a year has flown by since our little boy was delivered. I was so grateful to the staff at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital that we donated some photography and time as well as little Stone’s smiling face to … Continue reading
Reading – Leave it to the teachers
South Kids gathered a group of South Australian children’s authors and illustrators together in March to talk about inspiring kids to read. The consensus? Too much focus on ‘teaching to read’ at home can easily turn kids away from books at school. Cindie Smart reports…
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Nurturing a baby bookworm
In her book Reading Magic, Mem Fox states: “If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent – and every adult caring for a child – read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in their lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.” Continue reading