I’ve stumbled on (without even visiting StumbleUpon) Tim Milburn’s organisation, Student Leadership Inc.  
In a recent blog post An Open Letter To Teachers, he writes this:
“Often, we don’t know what ’students’ are capable of until we give them an opportunity to test out, try out their leadership skills.”
I have the utmost respect for a man who [...]

According to Busy Mom, these rules of engagement with teenagers will enable you to avoid their wrathful vengeance. That’s a good thing for any parent of adolescents. Here’s the first 3; for the rest you’ll have to travel over to the orginal post and view the stone tablets for yourself…
1. Thou shalt not make any [...]

Over at 100 Bloggers April’s theme is Proper Care and Feeding. There’s some great posts about nurturing ideas and about maintaining essential commitments.
It made me think more “prosaic” thoughts about what Generation Z kids get fed literally.
[No, it's not going to be a rant about childhood obesity. Yes, the word prosaic is somewhat pretentious, as [...]

So, we were lucky enough to get to see Walking with Dinosaurs - the live experience - last weekend. What an awesome thing it was, too!
This Gen-X-er was one happy camper. When I was a boy, the best effects in movies were basically baby alligators and gila monsters dressed up to look like dummosaurus and whatthehellkindofdinosauristhatus !
So being [...]

An article published in Melbourne newspaper The Age
Jill Stark
February 12, 2007
Australia’s obesity epidemic is reaching crisis point and the number of overweight children will rise to 60 per cent within 30 years unless the Government invests billions, according to a health expert.
Kevin Norton, professor of exercise science at Sport Knowledge Australia, accused state and [...]