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What’s On- March, April and May

March Play and Learn, Every Tuesday, 10am-noon, Pakenham Uniting Church. Disability Awareness Session, 3 March, 6pm-9pm, Outlook Community Centre, Pakenham. Women and Children’s Health and Wellbeing Expo,...

Shaping habits of a lifetime

‘Mum, whatcha doin?’ ‘Mum, whatcha doin?’ ‘Mum, whatcha doin?’ If you have children, look after children, or have ever been around a child, then you...

Don’t be brow-beaten

FROM practical jokes to name-calling, classroom secrets to online taunts. When does seemingly harmless teasing cross the line to become bullying? It’s a problem plaguing...

Say What? We asked, you answered!

Casey Cardinia Kids: What’s in your handbag or manbag that you would have never had pre-children? Violet: The size of it has changed as well....

Family focus in new clinic

A NEW holistic approach to women and children’s health has opened its doors in Berwick in February and it is already proving to be...

Kids say the darndest things

We asked- you answered!   What was the most mortifying moment you have had as a parent? Annette: I have always believed in teaching my children correct...

Travelling with toddlers

IN September, I decided to do the unthinkable in an effort to surprise my younger sister who has just become a new mum. I...

Communication is the key

A LOVE of children, mixed with the gift of the gab, led Janelle Curry to her dream job. The Mount Martha resident now spends...

Family makes miracle happen

FIVE years ago, 23-year-old Jessica Truong was 27-weeks pregnant when she suffered a traumatic loss that ultimately changed the rest of her life. But...

Love, laughs and triple the joy

THEY say three’s a crowd, but for Rebecca Leeuw and her husband Jarrod three’s the perfect company. When the couple was told four years ago...

Nurturing as nature intended

BREASTFEEDING isn’t something that comes naturally to all women. Pakenham mum and maternal child health nurse Candice Purvis would know, after struggling for weeks to...

Smashing Trend for First Birthday Milestones

IT’S messy, it’s exhausting, and it’s chaotic. But it’s oh, so sweet. Gone are the Polaroids our parents used to take of us, perched in...

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Switching suburbs

Moving house is a daunting prospect at the best of times, but throw kids in the mix and you’re in nightmare territory. So how do...

Teenage dream team