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About this time every year I remind people to grab a copy of my favourite Christmas book: How Winston Delivered Christmas by Alex T Smith. I know what you’re thinking. It’s October. You’re like, “Calm your farm, lady.” But you see this book is an ADVENT story. Starting on 1st December and finishing on 25th December you read a short chapter every night to your kids. Or your dog. #nojudgement It’s one of my FAVOURITE Christmas traditions and we’ve been reading this book every December for years now. My kids still LOVE it. See, kids…
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The world is wrong.
I have several talented, brave, interesting, original, smart 12 and 13 and 14 year old girls in my life. They’re all on Instagram. This week one of them…
High School is all about Five Minute Moments: If you’re being bullied, don’t give up.
Sunday nights are hard. They’re especially hard knowing you have to go back to school the next day. But there is hope. We can see High School as…
High School is all about Five Minute Moments: Don’t be a bully
High School is all about Five Minute Moments. In those moments, you get to decide what kind of person you want to be. Which path will you take?…
Loganlea Christmas Kindness: ‘Signature Excellence’ at Loganlea SHS
Last year, 15 000 Facebook followers from across Australia helped me play Santa for the hardworking students in Loganlea State High School’s ‘Signature Excellence’ program. These students flip…
Backstabbing, eyerolls and exclusion: the bully tactics favoured by girls
In 1988, when I was fifteen, a classmate had her personal diary stolen out of her school bag, photocopied and taped up on the walls of the senior…
Sunday will be bittersweet ….
I wrote this piece three years ago. It is as true today as it was then … **** It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday and truth be told if…
Stories about feathers and telephones and grief and a little boy called Hamish …
No matter how hard we try, we cannot out-run death or grief. Tomorrow, is the birthday of my goddaughter May who was stillborn nearly two decades ago. Tomorrow…
Dear Duchess Catherine …
I’m thinking tonight about the Duchess of Cambridge going into labour with her third child. And I thought, I don’t make having three little kids at home sound…
The first six weeks …
When my daughter Ava was born I fell madly in love. But that beautiful baby girl nearly unravelled me. She never slept. EVER. And I began to lose…
Last night I saw the captain of the Australian Cricket Team cry on television …
We all screw up. Some bigger than others. Some just more public. I was thinking about Steve Smith last night and just wanted to say that while consequences…
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Over the past 25 years Rebecca Sparrow has earned a living as a travel writer, a television publicist, a marketing executive, a magazine editor, a TV scriptwriter, a radio producer, a newspaper columnist and as an author.
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