James & the doggy door…

So normally I save my funny video’s for Fun Friday, but I just couldn’t wait to share this one with you!

This was my birthday BBQ on Saturday night. Yes we are all very mature adults!

And let me just add, don’t worry the door is currently being made smaller!

Go Pink for October!

Clearly there is no need for me to make Puff Pieces pink for October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Puff is a lovely shade of pink all the time, however, for the rest of this month we’ll say it’s for the National Breast Cancer Foundation!

So, yes October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and you can do your bit, big or small by buying a pink ribbon or heading to the National Breast Cancer Foundation website and purchase some of their awesome pink merchandise. Me and this charity certainly are a match made in heaven aren’t we!

Here’s my purchase’s for this year: an extra pink t-shirt and slippers, on their way!

Time out for the wooden spoon.

Time out is better than smacking

Ok, so today we’re going to have a chat about the wooden spoon debate. Gosh I sound like a talk show host.

Anyway, this is a serious subject and one that I have often thought about quietly, but only decided to write about last night after I received an email from a friend of mine. She works with abused children on a daily basis, so for her this subject is both very serious and very close to home.

A bit of background for you, from ninemsn.com.au:

Wooden spoon mum sparks smacking debate

A Victorian woman has been questioned by police and threatened to be charged with assault after hitting her 9-year-old daughter with a wooden spoon. Claire Davidson was warned by police that she risked an assault-with-a-weapon charge after her child revealed in a classroom discussion that her mother hit her with the spoon.

Ms Davidson said she was shocked when a support worker from Yea Public School reported the smacking to police. “We only use the wooden spoon and that is only when she is being naughty and we give her fair chance to rectify the situation and we talk her through it,” she told the Herald Sun.

She said her daughters gets three warnings and, then, “it is spoon time.” Ms Davidson of Flowerdale, north of Melbourne, was told by police she would be charged with assault if another instance of her daughter being hit with the spoon was reported again.

The incident has sparked a debate about smacking between parents and child-welfare advocates. A criminal lawyer said that whether parents are charged with assaulting their children or not depends on how severe the smacking is.

“Just because you are mother or daughter doesn’t make you exempt from the law,” criminal lawyer James Dowsley said.

My first initial opinion on this topic was, my brother and I were smacked with the wooden spoon and we turned out all right. That of course is a very simplistic and hopeful view that all people hit with an object as a child will turn out ok.