Shambolic Living

Is Parenting Teens Hard?

Janine — Fri, 31 May 2013 02:42:10 +0000

Once when I was a mother of a newborn and a toddler a mother of teenagers said to me “you know I think they need you around more when they are teenagers than when they are babies”. As I wiped pooey bums, worried about delayed speech development, monitored TV consumption and agonised over the nutritional...

A Plea to Gen Y Social Media Inventors

Janine — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:53:43 +0000

Dear Gen Y Techno Nerds I’m calling an amnesty. Could you please stop the invention of any more social media. Just for a little while. Until I get my head around the ones you’ve already created. I’ve done my best. I’ve Tweeted, Facebooked, Instagrammed, Pinned. I know there is so much more out that, but...

The trials and tribulations of a techno connected life

Janine — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:50:01 +0000

We aren’t exactly the most technical of families The desktop computer is four years old. My laptop belongs to a time period pre-everything, any attempt at internet connection allows you to go off and cook a three course meal while you wait for it to load and it won’t let you type the letter “g”....