Today, I finished the story of Final Fantasy XIII-2, and got to the credits. There's still more I can do in the game, but the story is complete ( Read more... )

"Hey, Doyle!" I said, when collecting my son from downstairs, after he was being dropped home from school. "Mummy downloaded a new episode of Roary the Racing Car for you."

"And what else?"

( A tale from the life of my four year old son )

( Non-fiction )

The first movie I remember seeing at the cinema was Disney's The Little Mermaid in 1990. I was 6. This was such a landmark occasion for me that I even remember that we drove all the way up to Fremantle Queensgate cinemas to see it - a good half an hour away from where we lived - because that was the nearest cinema to where we lived at the time. I ( Read more... )

Some parents, I hear, hate travelling with kids. I'm not one of those parents. In fact, whilst traversing through Brunei, I calculated that I've taken my 3 year old son to 16 different countries already in his lifetime. Before he was one, he had been to Australia, UK, Portugal, Brazil, USA, Canada and Japan. Between one and two was less interesting ( Read more... )

Have you heard that television rots kids' brains? Apparently that it's the reason they have no imagination any more, or why they turn into killers, because they see too much violence, or why they're all sexual deviants, because there's so much sex on TV. Maybe I should care how much TV my three year old watches, but I don't ( Read more... )