dumpers are waves that break in a way that is dangerous. The large wave curls in the shallows then crashes down as it breaks - with the potientian to toss people around and has been known to break necks. Lifesavers/ lifeguard put up the yellow flag for caution as a warning - and made an announcement as low tide approached. The lifesavers are volunteers. lifeguards are paid by council.DeeClutter wrote:What are dumpers and/or nipper vacation, LynLee? Have some ideas but thought I'd get right from the source.
Nippers is for kids - like junior lifesavers. they learn about surf and water safety, first aid (Ithink) play sand and water sports for starters. there are lifeguards and life savers at city beach at the lagoons at Brisbane city Southbank (not far from dd's) and the dgks were enrolled in vacation programs a couple of holiday times. Of course its just still water at city beach. Yesterday dgd was running at southbank during her 6am swimming club training with an inner city pvt girls school. (dd enrolled her there to help strengthen her arm after she had broken it - and it turned out she was good at it. - also does circus as another activity - needed her arm strength to go back to circus)
Glad Kathryn is really on the mend - and off to a flying start. Glad you were able to keep moving as much as you could. I know someone who has mostly done bed rest for 9 months. That does not make life easy for herself. Nor does being 3X my size.
my friday
yoga. few groceries - milk fish and yoghurt and cashews
appointment - efpost card wouldn't pay up so went to bank. My money was ok. ty. Pd water bill, then back to pay for appointment. Seems like pdocs banking doobie reader 's bank was down.
rang dm
walk
dinner
dishes.
watched movies. late to bed again.
Good night all.
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I remember reading about Helia DD (i think it was) studying ahead. I remember thinking how smart and organized she was to be pro-active with her studies. With that example in mind...... I am thinking about establishing a daily 30 minute time slot for school work. There is an empty time slot one hour after LO gets out of school. We use the hour after school to do physical things (we usually go to the park and play/walk after I pick him up from school). Hum....why didn't I think of this before? Thinking outloud.....If LO has homework we will do it during that time slot, if not then we will spend the 30 minutes doing fun type reviews of his studies. Plus another 30 minutes for playing hands-on educational type games. That would give him a total of 1 hour set aside each day to spend on homework if needed. Having fun games mixed in with the homework will hopefully make it a time LO will look forward to. Trying to embed the thought and the attitude that learning time and homework are often FUN. 
I swear I read that paragraph a couple times!! 
LOL! Also, the girls have a lot of extracurriculars going on and they know they need to fit hw and studies around those activities; dd16 has something after school every day of the week, except for Thursdays. And we have our dinner crew over Thursday evenings. She is more likely than dd14 to be careless with studies, but not to the point where it will affect her GPA. Still, she knows that if she does poorly (by dh's and my definition of poorly) on an exam or quiz or big assignment, we will cut into her activities. Dd14 is not as busy as dd16 yet - yet. She just has an oboe lesson on Tuesdays (1 hour plus transport time) and youth group Wed. evenings. However, if she sticks to her decision to do synchro. swimming team, she will go to practices 4? evenings a week for 2.5 hours each, starting in a couple months. That may be a scheduling challenge. The girls monitor themselves and their hw load and their activities a bit; for example, last week, dd14 did not go to youth group b/c of homework. 
