Earlier this year, on a crisp September evening, Amber my 21 year old daughter and I were off to the movies in town. We had bought tickets to a Melbourne première of a special documentary film. Amber is a budding doco maker herself, so it was a great thing to share as father and daughter.…
DetailsIn putting together a presentation called Surviving the Ride on the Adolescent Rollercoaster, I invited mums and dads who have done a Time & Space program to come along to a preview of the talk. It was Melbourne based and as the programs are offered around Australia (and indeed the world now – with sessions…
DetailsIt happens in schools sometimes. Decisions get made from high up. Year 7 White, Year 7 Red, Year 7 Blue, Year 7 Gold and Year 7 Green were all meant to get their year level camp in 1979, my first year of high school. Someone decided that for that year it wasn’t happening. The camp…
Details… in a world that demands flexibility, lauds the multi-tasker and pronounces that today’s 15-year-old will have about 20 different jobs throughout their career… it isn’t difficult to build the argument against the specialist. You can see how the person who does one thing well could be dismissed as unsuitably equipped to make their way…
DetailsIt has been a big week for Gabi. On Tuesday night Gabi was a participant at the Mother and Son session at her son’s school, Saint Ignatius College in Drysdale, a 20 minute drive through Geelong. Two nights later she fronted up and was a team member at the subsequent Mother and Daughter night. At…
DetailsConsider this… a member of your family is having a stressful time with one of their kids. They approach you and ask for some help. What would you do? You’ve got your answer? Good. Hold that thought. See if you can find some of your own stories in what’s to follow. With my seventeen year-old…
DetailsThis year it finally happened. The threat had loomed for a while but when the time came, it kept coming. He proved the next two times we played, that his victory wasn’t a fluke. For about four years now, my 17-year-old son and I have had a regular hit of squash up at our local…
DetailsSome Time & Space Community people might know that Mem Fox’s picture book (illustrated by Julie Vivas), Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge gets a run in some of my presentations. It‘s a personal favourite. It is a story of a small boy who helps his ninety-six year old friend, Miss Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper, in the…
DetailsFrom the day this story is posted consider how time has moved since these two events. It is 42 days since Adam Goodes was called an ‘ape’ at the MCG by a 13-year-old girl. It is 44 days since Private Lee Rigby was hacked to death in Woolwich in the UK. If you read this…
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