The Parent Room

The Art of Parenting

Three ideas about parenting from the web:

 

1. It’s Hard to Say “I’m Sorry” When You’re Not

https://www.ronitbaras.com/family-matters/parenting-family/guilt-tripping-saying-sorry/

 

2. How our kids can become ‘indistractable’

https://www.netfamilynews.org/how-our-kids-can-become-indistractable

 

3. Cleaning up is a life skill – 3 strategies to encourage kids to help

https://karacarrero.com/cleaning-up-life-skils/

Tech Focus

Check out this great parenting app:

 

OurHome

An in-depth organiser app that allows parents to reward kids for their work on chores, OurHome is free to use with no ads. The app allows parents to assign and schedule tasks and chores, view personal progress and activities, add items to a shared grocery list, enter events into a family calendar, send messages and reminders, and stay in sync across multiple unlimited devices. Each family member has the ability to create and edit to-do lists, add new tasks, assign deadlines, and assign the task to a family member. Reviewers love it for its ability to keep large families organised and its “completely customisable” features.

 

http://ourhomeapp.com/

Reconciliation Action Plan Update

Happy NAIDOC Week to everyone for last week. Our school Library recently obtained a hot-off-the-press copy of the book challenging Bruce Pascoe’s “Dark Emu”, called “Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers”. It questions whether First Nations Australians really did have settled agriculture as Pascoe suggests, but then makes the point that hunter-gatherer societies such as those in Australia during the ‘custodianship’ period were in fact just as complex as anything in Europe at the time.

Mr Ben Lawless

Researcher