I call it CARING not SPYING

Online behaviour  - I think its OK to know what my child is doing

Today there is a lot of material out there about the behaviour of our child on social media sites and other online activity.
As a parent of 3 children I really believe that it is my responsibly to know what they are posting, my children vary in age from 20 to 10 and while the 20 year old is officially an adult, as a parent who has said 20 year old at home I feel that I am still entitled to be aware of what is happening in their life.  If things were not right in public as a parent I would speak up.  Also if things are not right online then it is my responsibility to speak up .  Look I do believe that I am not entitled to be privy to all things from my children but I am entitled to expect a responsible respectful child.  So whether the behaviour is public or online I feel I still need to know certain things.  If this makes me a spy then that is what I am.

I do believe that I need to check more on my younger than my elder child as for my younger child the, parents are the primary carers, and they need to accept responsibility for their online activity as their maturity is not that of a 20 year old.  A 20 and 17 year old should be more responsible due to maturity. While I don't know the password for my elder child's account  I am a friend of their's on Facebook and I do check their wall from time to time.  I do  have the password for my younger and I believe that it is my right to have this, it is after all looking out for them emotionally and safely just as I would publicly. (My younger child does not have Facebook but does interact online through games.)

Make it a great day.
Until next time.

Its done, recorded and filed.

Dec 15 and I stopped posting my Daily December. I however did not stop doing it I just had other things to do than blog about.

Come around to 2nd week in January I am decluttering packing up Christmas stuff and doing my New Year overhaul.

So before filing my album away, just a little share of the completed album. I am very grateful to take part each December as it is always a wonderful record of life and memories looking back through the years.

We all have had a wonderful Christmas and a great start to the New Year of 2013.
Hope all goes well for you in 2013.

Make it a great year.
Until next time.

Dec 15

A very welcome relief as the weekend came around this week. Our usual Saturday is a catch up at home, pick Brooke up from work while the boys are at sport and go out to lunch with mum. We had to change it a little today as Brooke worked all day, Shakira had a piano rehearsal for Christmas Eve Church and I had promised to take her to the pageant that evening. After having lunch with mum I dropped Shakira off  to here rehearsal went to pick up Brooke and then went back for Shakira.
We took along a friend of Shakira's who was also at rehearsal to the Pageant  and our photos today are from the Christmas Pageant.

Make it a great day.
Until next time.

Dec 14

In our home today everyone was pretty much everywhere and I was trying to really do more than I could. As myself Allan and Tim were all at work, Brooke was away and mum had a function I had to find somewhere for Shakira to go. Lucky for me a darling friend took her for the day and until later that day we were all in different places. When we were eventually back together I didn't have energy for much else. It was later in the evening that Shakira borrowed the camera to snap a photo of Allan asleep. While I have included it in my story the photo is in the Santa bag as it is not the best but still makes up our December Days story. Also along with that is a photo of my work roster but because the details are not for public viewing it is also included in the Santa brown bag. I also included just a few of our Christmas cards to record our day on December 14.

Make it a great day.
Until next time.

Dec 13

I am very traditional by nature. As today was the 1st day of school holidays for us and I didn't need to work I made my traditional trip to Christmas in the City. We went to Myer 1st and while Shakira is too big for all the activities she still did her sand creation. We then went to David Jones for our Santa photo, Shakira seems to be happy to have her photo taken with Santa at the moment from David Jones and there is never a wait. However Santa wasn't coming back until later so we found a water play area in the City and spent the rest of the time there.

After our day out I mentioned to Shakira that one day I will probably be old and on my own doing this same tradition because I started this when all my kids were little and slowly my 3 kids have gone down to 1. She in her sweet innocence said I will be doing this when I am as old as Brooke.

Make it a great month.
Until next time.

Dec 12

Ok so I am kind of cheating on this page, well not really anyhow, but I didnt take photos today. Silly me especially because it was the 12-12-12. What I did have was Shakira last school activities about Christmas so I included them. Re my previous post I was happy to find a home for them and looking back at last years December Daily, I know how important it is to include some artwork.

I hope Dec 12 was all that it could be for you all.

Make it a great day.
Until next time.

Dec 11

More school ending activities.  It also gets really busy the last week of our school year and we also end up with a lot of stuff, their left over supplies, their work for the year and reports.  Today was about this.  I need to go through all the girls school work and see what we need to keep.  As a scrapbook er I had a tendency to want it all, but I also know that this is impossible because there is no way I could physically store it all.

Make it a great school year memory.
Until next time.