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How to Make Homemade Holly Lolly Gift...
by FamilyConnect.com.au
on 20/12/2011 - 01:02 pm
Categories: christmas, craft
Recently, a friend showed me how to make these cute homemade gifts for Christmas gifts and decorations.
Easy and fun to make, these small Holly Lolly gifts (not sure of the "correct" name) are great to give out as small tokens of friendship or to brighten up a gift or Christmas table.
What You Will Need:
Red cellophane
Green cellophane
Ribbon
Scissors
Jaffa lollies or equivalent
Spearmint leaf lollies or equivalent
A spare pair of hands to help with tying
Eyes in the back of your head to stop helpers from eating the lollies
Instructions
Cut the red and green cellophane into squares, approximately 10-15cm by 10-15cm (my 6 yr old cut my squares). ...
Parenting on the Super Highway | Cybe...
by FamilyConnect.com.au
on 17/07/2011 - 10:15 pm
Category: Parenting
Recently I attended a talk by Dr Michael Carr-Gregg on Cyberbullying. If you are interested, I would like to share my notes with you.
Firstly, Dr Carr-Greg discussed what is bullying and what it is not. Carr-Greg recommends parents download the Bully Hurts brochure from the National Centre Against Bullying. This concise publication outlines five kinds of bullying, what bullying is and what it is not and information and advice on what to do if bullying is happening.Carr-Greg recommended a number of books on this subject, his own titles as well as:
The Recess Queen By Laura Huliska-Beith
Bully Blocking By Evelyn M. Field
Destroying Avalon by Kate McCaffrey (not suitable for under Y ...
Wealth and Prosperity
by FamilyConnect.com.au
on 17/07/2011 - 09:20 pm
Category: Health, Wealth & Prosperity
I just wanted to give you early notification before anyone else...
If you're interested in attaining financial freedom sooner – I’m excited to let you know that four *BRAND NEW* 2011 Think And Grow Rich ® Cashflow Conferences have just been released...
This post is to give you the green light to grab two exclusive tickets to this, Australia’s ultimate wealth creation event valued at $497 each, for free as my guest… while seats last!
You may or may not know that this event was first launched in 2009 after three years in the making, and quickly became what many industry figures acknowledge as Australia’s premier wealth creation ...
Babies | Movie Review
by FamilyConnect.com.au
on 31/05/2011 - 05:10 pm
Category: Founder Blog
Babies….. a gentle encounter of the human kind
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Thomas Balmès, from an original idea by producer Alain Chabat, Babies simultaneously captures the rudimentary engagements between four babies and each of their mothers, siblings, landscapes and animals from birth to first steps. The babies are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opuwo, Namibia; Bayarjargal, who resides with his family in Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani; Mari, who lives with her family in Tokyo, Japan; and Hattie, who resides with her family in San Francisco, USA. This movie offers a gentle human encounter with a focus ...
Pain is Temporary, Legacies are Forever
by FamilyConnect.com.au
on 14/04/2011 - 12:25 pm
Category: Founder Blog
Welcome to the first blog entry for FamilyConnect. Writing this first entry has been on my to-do list for a few weeks now."What do I write for the very first entry?" I had been asking myself for a few weeks and no effective answer was forthcoming.
Last night, with the question in the back of my mind, I watched a TV documentary on Stuart O'Grady, the Australian road cyclist. I was watching it with my husband, a passionate road cyclist, who has had his freedoms curtailed by a broken foot. (How did he break his foot? He would tell you he did it bouldering - he fell over a rock getting the kids out of the car.)
The documentary followed O'Grady's win at the 2007 Paris-Roubaix, a ...
