• Cate Bolt wrote a moving open letter to the Prime Minister and the Queensland Premier explaining how her family of eleven is now homeless and highlighting the flaws in The Housing Department’s system.
• Children’s Resources Galore featured an interview with Catherine from Adventures with Kids.
• The SMH reported that new studies (supposedly) showed that children whose parents refuse to let them be vaccinated for chickenpox are nine times as likely as vaccinated children to develop chickenpox that requires medical attention.
• Planning Queen from Planning With Kids wrote about her daughter’s amazing birthday tea party and gave some great ideas for sixth birthday parties.
• Christie from Childhood101 reflected on the lessons that she has learned from her toddler – my number one lesson learned was to ALWAYS ask whether he wants triangles or squares before cutting toast, never ever assume.

You’d struggle to find a single parenting forum that wasn’t covered in tickers. We all love to boast about our kids, and telling the world exactly how old they are is an extension of that. Unfortunately some of us don’t neccesarily want chains of flowers with a baby snuggled in a peapod floating down it as the year progresses, if you’re going to tell the world how old your babes are, you might as well tell it a bit about yourself as well.

Enter Alternatickers. They have an awesome selection of graphics, great backgrounds and excellent markers including tattoos, same sex parenting and cloth nappies. They also allow the option to add custom text, a photo from your hardrive or flickr and also have the option of creating mini-tickers so you don’t completely fill your forum signature.

Check out Alterna-Tickers.com here.