Category: language development

blooming and sneezing

blooming and sneezing

mōrena e te whānau it’s like a blossom festival around here. I love the visuals, but jeepers there is some sneezing going on. Not gonna grizzle, though, I’ll just continue…
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un-enrolling and making peace

un-enrolling and making peace

Kia ora friends,Some months ago, I submitted abstracts to present my work at the forthcoming World Association for Infant Mental Health conference in beautiful Toronto. When I was accepted to…
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age old dilemma

age old dilemma

Here it is: I want to be positive. I want to talk about the things that WORK for families, and that are life-enhancing. I don’t want to spend my days…
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sick days, a little craze(d)

Kia ora friends, Little Girl is still unwell – it’s day nine (?)… meanwhile, f you could see the number of open tabs that are squashed along the top of…
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in the news

Kia ora friends, Yesterday, the news was full of this story, concerned about the oral language skills of children arriving in New Zealand’s schools, aged five. Later in the day,…
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a lover, not a fighter

Kia ora fam, I really would like to be allowed to exist for love. Like Aurora. My training and work and research and life all justify my long held pro-mama,…
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too little too late (too busy!!)

Kia ora friends, The busy is a bit much at the moment. In my life, the hurtling will be somewhat inevitable till we put the thesis to bed, in about…
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a quick party, then back to work

Ladies and Gentlegeeks, Just like President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris, I am celebrating a milestone. Theirs is the upending of Team Orange, mine is much less earth-shattering but nonetheless…
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many links for geeky friends

Kia Ora e hoa ma, Many amazing things for you to read, coming right up. First, from the World Health Organisation, about the needs of li’l kids.  I love how…
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