Dad Zone: Plastic toys and icing – the first birthday party
Why do people have a birthday party for a one year old? We asked ourselves this question for a few months. It’s not like our little boy will remember it, or even care who’s there or what he gets. He’ll be more interested in the wrapping paper than any toys. Let’s just open a nice bottle of wine for ourselves and give him some wrapping paper. Continue reading
Alcohol… on a rung and a prayer
In the mid 1970s nothing much ever happened in Port Pirie. Well, not for teenagers anyway, which probably explains why my first brush with booze occurred on the third rung of the television antenna in my neighbour Mick O’Connor’s backyard. Continue reading
Posted in Early teens
Tagged Behaviour, Education, Health and Wellbeing, Parties