Posts by Tamara
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Yes, I finally caught up on NITGOS last night, which I only watched because I had enjoyed the book. And yes, super disappointing.
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As my partner and I bought Splore tickets in the beginning we're kind of disappointed at the changes. We were really keen on bringing our children for the afternoon sessions and now we can't. Splore have been kind enough to refund us for Saturday night's tickets cause we just can't do two late nights in a row and look after energetic littlies both days afterwards. And I suppose if it rains tomorrow night there's no problem cause now we're indoors!
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Jackie, I find this stuff really interesting as well, and that programme looks great. Plunket promotes Active Movement, which seems to be based on similar concepts. Regarding the crawling, I was quite focussed on making sure my daughters did crawl as I am aware of the risk of kids being held back in some things if they don't. According to Plunket etc crawling is good because the movement effects cross-patterning which helps to build the connections between the hemispheres of the brain.
A family friend is a semi-retired teacher and has worked with children whose co-ordination suffered as a result of not crawling. For example, they struggled to draw figure 8s. The therapy to fix this is getting them the time crawling that they didn't get as babies.
My first was a good sitter and started to bum-shuffle, so I took a hard line and made her do more tummy time than she would've liked. The bum-shuffling didn't continue and ended up crawling and climbing for a good 6 months. Makes me sound like a hot-house Mum but honestly, I'm not!!
By the way, I am a useless athlete all round, which made a Kiwi childhood quite hard, so I am hoping my girls have it a bit easier.
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to Sam F,
And possibly with the addition of the attitude exemplified in my story about my Dad...
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Who taught you to swim Islander? My dad has his story of how he learnt to swim. He grew up in Riga, Latvia and during WW2 when he was 7 or so he was sent to the country to stay with family. They sent him off by himself, a city kid, down to the river to teach himself to swim. He is quite surprised he survived that, in retrospect.
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This is what they have at Pt Erin, I've been going for a couple of weeks. My wife got in free, because she was a "non-swimming guardian", meaning she was basically looking after my 1-year old.
I was thinking more that the adult would be swimming. My 18 month old (or 3 year old for that matter) certainly wouldn't want to get in without me. Pt Erin is nice but it's a summer only facility isn't it?
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The only one I achieved was "Water Confidence". I want better for my children dammit!
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How about children free and same for an adult accompanying a child? And yes, free lessons as it's in the public interest. As for my initial comment about objectors being parents, I suppose I meant more specifically those who seriously recommend year round beach swimming as a solution. Seriously privilege-denying.
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Yes, I grew up in Pakuranga in a family on a tight budget and we spent a lot of time at Swimarama (as it was then), which had entry of a dollar or so.
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I agree, beaches are no substitute for pools. We went to Pt Chev beach this weekend and it was lovely, and great swimming for my littlies. However, that was due to a magical combination of it being summer, good weather, no waves and high tide at a reasonable time. Most of the time we may not get even one of these factors, let alone all. Usually the seawater in Auckland is too cold to swim in comfortably and there are too many waves for my daughters' liking. Do the objectors even have children?