- Why Sucking on Dry Blemmie Mints and Dining on Distant Planets Must Be Good For You
When you're little and lying in bed at night, or playing, anything and everything is possible with a twist, a word, a thought, gesture or action. In a moment you can be living in a castle fending off mighty dragons, scoring the winning goal in a World Cup Final, bringing up a family of lions in a shoe box or flying to the outer reaches of the Galaxy. - Remember
Remember, we played in the street until after dark, cavorted in the woods, the fields, on building sites and next to the river. - Don't Touch The Woolly Mammoth
Don’t Touch The Woolly Mammoth.
We created a few warm ups. Not for the body, because the kids had just had lunch and they were all thoroughly warmed up. These were warm ups for the imagination. The mind needs a warm up before working. The brain is a muscle and needs just as much help to get into exercise as any muscle in the body. - How Children Learn And What You Can Do To Help Them
It isn’t enough to simply say ‘Just write a story.’ Kids, unless they love writing and live their lives as devoted daydreamers, wont react.
Most will sit there a bit stunned before finally asking ‘What about?’ It’s a good question. - Meaning-Making-Machines
When your health is perfect and you feel superb both physically and mentally, the sun is out, the sky is blue, you have more money than you know what to do with and everyone you meet, likes you – doesn’t life feel great? - Mildew and Mustard
Mildew thoughtfully squeezed a blob of toothpaste. He brushed his teeth hard, before noticing it tasted a bit funny. He didn't have time to wonder how Mustard had managed to squeeze chili seeds into his tube of toothpaste. His mum found him downstairs with his tongue stuck to the inside of the freezer. His eyes were wild, cross-eyed and popping. - It's My Garden, My Hole, I'm First
We worked in shifts and soon Tim's head disappeared. That meant we were really deep and it shouldn't be long before we heard Australian voices. Boy, were they going to be surprised. There was a 'clang'. Metal hit metal. A startled head appeared from the hole. "I think we've hit something" it said. - Tiffany's Entrance
She held her dripping nightie up to her chin with both hands and looked around her startled audience accusingly. - Untapped Genius Everywhere We Go
There are hundreds of millions of children in the world. Every child who goes to school has a go at creative writing. Many do this every day. Out of the billions of stories children create, every day, out of their own vivid imaginations, none are published. - Writing For Children Part 3
If you’re stuck for an idea, go to the drawer and get the scissors out, find a piece of card or paper and cut a frame out. - Writing For Children Part 2
Too many children’s stories are chosen because they sound good to adults. But children get bored with them. Look at stories that have travelled through time and are as popular with today’s children as they were generations ago. Winnie the Pooh, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and my favourite The Faraway Tree series. - Writing For Children Part 1
Writing for children is said to be the hardest kind of writing you can choose. - Writing For Children, And Getting Children To Write, Part 4
Children can have friends who are leaves, footballs, pieces of toast shaped like boats and even items of clothing.Personal effects can be personal friends, hard to let go. Inanimate objects have feelings and lives of their own. - Helping Children To Love Writing, Give Them The Confidence To Write - Two Quick Exercises To Do Now
This one is a challenging exercise, and one for you to do as well when working with children who are reluctant to write. - 20 Tips For Great Indian Curries Plus One Tip You Wont Find In Any Recipe Books To Guarantee Success
But I need to give you the 21st tip, and the one that makes all the difference. It is also the most controversial, and the one that the un-enlightened few will cry ’What is he going on about now’?’ When I do this, the curry works perfectly every time. When I don’t, it still tastes great but there is something missing. - Helping Children To Love Writing, Give Them The Confidence To Write
This one is a challenging exercise, and one for you to do as well when working with children who are reluctant to write.
Begin with a description of the ocean. Get them to tell you everything they know about the ocean, using all their senses.
When it begins to slow down, ask the class or child you are working with to spend five minutes writing about the ocean. They need to write as quickly as they can, and there is no need to worry about spelling or punctuation. - Writing For Children Part 5, And Writing A Children's Book called 'The Photograph' Live On Ezine
Beginnings can be found anywhere. I worked at a school this morning, and on the wall behind the librarian there is a black and white photo. I’ve seen it several times. No one knows where it came from.It’s in my mind now, so that’s my starting point. The important thing to remember here is that I have no idea what’s going to come out next. Not a clue.I start with the memory and what I see in my head, and begin writing. There’s no conscious thought about this, but I know to trust the process. It gives me a tingle of expectation every time, and even if people didn’t like the stories, I don’t believe it would matter.I love doing it, and what better life can you have than doing something you love doing?Here goes. - Writing For Children Part 6, And A Book 'The Photograph' Continued Live On Ezine Articles
The Photograph is a story I started in the last article. I needed to continue it quickly to see where it was going, if there was a future in it or whether it would peter out.Let’s find out. - The First And Only Step You Need To Take To Live An Extraordinary Life You Love
Books, seminars, tapes, DVDs, courses, life coaches, self-help groups, professional help through psychiatrists and hourly Visualisations.If none of these have worked or brought the things you most want in life, and you're STILL asking the same questions, then something else must be going on. - Spring Quest: An Adventure For The Imagination In Which Children Cannot Get It Wrong
It is to do with creative writing, the imagination, lateral and logical thinking. And there are no hard and fast rules on how to complete the tasks. There are no right or wrong answers either, so everyone succeeds, whatever they do or don’t do. - A Short Tale About One Child And A Spoonful Of Hot English Mustard, The Way We Learn And Not Be Told
"Look," I tried to reason. "If you put that in your mouth it'll be so hot it could choke you. You don't like choking do you?"Let's call him Kevin. It's not his real name, but today he’s 6 foot four and built like a wardrobe. I don't want to embarrass the poor lad. - Asking The Questions To Kick-Start Young Writers
The trick to a great story is to put ordinary characters of any species into extraordinary situations, climb into their world and go with what you find there, however outrageous or weird it might be. - The Truth About Writing And Art
L ook O bserve G ather I magine C reate - I Know - I Think
'I'm scared of monkey's"I went home, and in my seven year old head made an important decision.I didn’t like writing. More than that, I COULDN’T write! - What Can You Do If You Have No Legs?
The Leader very slowly pulled himself up to his true height, filled out his jacket with a ripple of cracking muscles and turned to face his new adversary. He blinked. There was no one there. - Bubblegum Days
Good timing is such an important component in these interceptions, and dad didn’t have any. - The Trick To Life
Life is full of these twists and turns. Full of 'what if' moments that if we thought about them, would send us crazy and paralyse us into not moving - in case we got it wrong. - How To Make A Profound Difference
The raising of children and the responsibility of the WHOLE community. Local, state, national, regional, WORLDWIDE community - Humbled And Inspired By A Child Who Cannot Move
Mandy finds it hard to breathe, and although she is tube fed her lungs become congested and she is prone to catching a whole range of infections, all of which could kill her.Mandy is nine years old, as pretty as a painting and has the most beautiful, intelligent, light blue eyes you've ever seen. - The Jolt
For the first time I got a direct response from a child who supposedly couldn't respond. - Unlocking The Mysteries Of Young Minds
The language, I am told, was awful, and I was taken to an ice-cream kiosk to firstly distract me from the horrible scene unfolding, and secondly to remove my happy smiling face from Fred's murderous advances. - The Festival Of Storytellers
The French have always had much to boast about, and the Liars Festival in Mancrabeau has been going strong since the heady days of 1748 And you would think that anyone who had the secret of life at their fingertips would charge a small fortune - no, a HUGE fortune - for it, but I won't. - Living 'Outside The Box' Away From The Comfort Zone
Being different is what makes us tick. - Making The Most Of The One Chance
Just short of not having any name at all are three places that for some reason went even further and use only one letter for their names. Y is in Picardie in north western France and is pronounced 'ee'. There are about 30 Y-ites living there. - Turning 'Can't' Into 'Can' And 'Did'
The possibilities I created that day five years ago have all come true. At the time they looked impossible - Albany Western Australia, Too much Of A Paradise To Call Home
Is this paradise? - Afghans In The Park
He arrived at the front door and jimmied around with his key, trying to get a key shape into a custom built keyhole and finding the task nearly impossible. - The Who, What, Why, Where, When and How Of The Impossibly Humble Radish
I like to think of a guarded, shy little man in a sombrero furtively dressing up as a radish and frolicking around his neighbourhood at midnight because it's 'his thing', a fetish he cant resist and, for reasons best known to themselves, his fellow Mexicans joined in. - Life Is Not A Secret - That's The Big Secret
It doesn't have to be the struggle we make it out to be. Life was meant to be easy, but we do need to know the big secret isn't a secret at all. - Get Over It - You're Embarassing Us
Many West Australians have been quibbling and squabbling intensely over the past few months, in the press, on television and getting involved in heated debates all over the state - How To Stay Young And Happy - A Start!
So here's a start, and if we're serious, we'll do these as a natural and joyous part of living: - Escaping The Comfort Zone, The Most Dangerous Place In The World
They meant NOTHING! There' is nothing to fear except the comfort zone, the place where nothing happens, no risks are taken and no one sets any challenges. - What Happens When you Choose To Follow The Dream And The Passion?
There will always be pain, but the suffering is optional if you are following the path you chose for yourself, and not the path you felt obligated to take. Or worse, a path someone else chose for you, no matter how well meaning their decision was.
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