http://www.thinkthinks.com 30-something, Australian, easily distracted. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:21:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My daughter has been having some friend problems lately. To be honest, I think we are lucky to have come right through to Year 6 with this being our first real issue. It is nothing major (although I'm sure it seems that way to her) and she is mostly a ... http://www.thinkthinks.com/?p=939 If somebody took a photo of you right now, right this second, and then showed it to a complete stranger, what assumptions do you think they would make? What judgements could they form based on this one moment in time that they see you? Forgive me if I get a little ... http://www.thinkthinks.com/?p=933 I have a theory. Actually being of a philosophical bent I have many theories, most of them sound, but some possibly bordering on nutjobbery, so let’s keep this narrowed to just the one for now. My theory is that people identify best with the season in which they were born. I ... http://www.thinkthinks.com/?p=929 Last week I had a couple of those random twitter experiences that get your mind working. First Susan at Reading Upside Down outed me as the intrepid children's book sleuth when Rebecca Newman (@_boobook_ ) was hunting for a book she had read as a child. (You can read about ... http://www.thinkthinks.com/?p=917 After a recent bout of the flu, I’m afraid to say that my home isn’t quite as tidy as it should be. A thumping headache and a rainy morning on Sunday encouraged me to shelve my plans to get myself and the kids ready to go to church and I ... http://www.thinkthinks.com/?p=114 My twelve year old daughter wrote the following for her school's public speaking competition, after we were talking about the Bear Grylls in Newcastle hashtag on Twitter. I thought it was pretty funny, so would like to share it with you all. Apart  from removing names and the lovely all-caps ... http://www.thinkthinks.com/?p=907 With the new Sex and the City movie coming out about now, lots of women my age are looking forward to catching up with their old friends Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. And I am starting to feel a little lost again. Despite having watched a handful of episodes over the ... http://www.thinkthinks.com/?p=895 My son is not your average lad. When people talk about boys being more assertive, more physical or just generally more boisterous than girls, I know they haven't met Davo, whose boofy family nickname belies his gentle personality. He's an enigma at times. Incredibly bright, but not particularly enamoured with ... http://www.thinkthinks.com/?p=886 There has been a lot of talk about Jessica Watson around the traps (a phrase which here means that I am too lazy to direct you to all the articles discussing her, but I'm sure you've seen some.). She has been described as an attention-seeker, as a risk-taker, as too ... http://www.thinkthinks.com/?p=877 My severe arachnophobia is well-known. I blame the Dr Who Planet of the Spiders episode. My research showed that this first aired in 1974, so assuming it came to Australia not long afterwards, I must have been around 3 or 4 years old when I saw it. Even looking back ... http://www.thinkthinks.com/?p=870