Big on Little People

Lowen 🩷 20TH May

We are thrilled to announce that are beautiful baby girl Lowen finally decided to grace us with her presence.

Born in the water at 40+6, weighing 4.06kg our girl has given us another beautiful yet wild story to tell. After a last minute wee emergency we are all doing great.

Jarrod was unsurprisingly incredible and Max and Banks are exploding with excitement and pride.

To our little Lo, thank you for choosing our family as the one you complete. We love you endlessly already and are just so grateful you are here safe and sound.

Photos and thanks to our doula Bree for supporting me in allllll the ways

(Tiny Dancer was playing while Lowen was making her way into the world, and while on one hand I was out of my body in another world (of agony) a thought came to me - "maybe this little one will be my tiny dancer". Both Max and Banks have no interest in me being their dance mum - 3rd time lucky?)

Its been a year since I posted this, I still feel the same. I hope this Mothers Day post helps you feel seen and understood.

To my fellow ECE people (family and friends please sign anyway 🤗)

You may have heard that DET has removed Circle of Security Classroom from the SRF menu, citing low uptake as the reason.

I've created a Petition against this change https://form.jotform.com/260910183328050

I’ll be meeting with DET next week to discuss this decision, and I’m currently gathering feedback from the sector to support keeping it accessible.
If you support this, I’d really appreciate you signing the petition and sharing it with your team, it could make a real difference.

Circle of Security is about presence and connection with children. It’s not about doing more, it’s about doing less, so we can be more for children. It’s an evidence-based framework that supports educators to push back against increasing administrative demands and unrealistic expectations that contribute to burnout.

Petition to Keep Circle of Security Classroom on the Victorian School Readiness Funding Menu Please click the link to complete this form.

A little DIY shoot to celebrate baby bump number 3. We cant wait to meet you little Miss.

Is there anything she cant do

Love this lot 🩷

The idea that a child can be “too attached” is one of the most misunderstood concepts in early childhood.
When a child cries at drop-off or clings to their parent, it isn’t a parenting failure. It isn’t manipulation. It isn’t a sign that they've “made them too attached" by holding them too much.
It’s biology.

Attachment is a survival system, its built into each of us as a matter of survival. Proximity to a safe adult regulates a child’s nervous system. Of course they seek it when they’re overwhelmed, tired, unsure or in transition. So why some children need more reassurance than others - well this is usually a combo of their attachment needs and their natural temperament that they were born with (no ones fault, temperament is not created)

Blaming parents for responding to that need misses the point entirely.

And here’s the part people forget: children are capable of multiple secure attachments. They don’t only attach to one person. They attach to adults who are consistently safe, responsive and emotionally available (not to people who push them away, create distance or ignore them, in the name of teaching independence)

Independence is not taught by withdrawing safety.
It grows from feeling secure.
When we lean into a child’s need for connection instead of shaming it, we’re not creating dependence we’re offering the secure base they need to go off and explore the world.

Closeness is not the problem.
It’s the solution.