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Anna Spargo-Ryan

Anna Spargo-Ryan is an impatient but well meaning mother of two living in Melbourne with her extremely handsome dog. Anna writes on life, love, loss and chocolate and tries to maintain a sense of humour about it, but is occasionally overwhelmed by soft words and hand holding. The rest of the time, you can find her saying things on Twitter or on her eponymous blog

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Why do I still care about the people who didn't like me in high school?

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Recent blog posts

Aug 14

Should Playschool be teaching our kids about social media?

According to news.com.au, there is some degree of outrage about ABC mainstay Play School incorporating Twitter into a recent episode. The upset from parents appears to be less about the fact that presenter Matt Passmore used it incorrectly – no mention of Masterchef or any #QandA hashtags...

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Aug 02

If you have a daughter you have to read this post

My kids are dastardly computer savvy types. They sit on their laptops and look at photos of horses and play the same kinds of awful Flash games that are also my occasional secret shame. Their computers are fairly tightly locked down (I've blocked my own blog from them!) but they like to use the...

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Jul 16

The end of free thinking starts at the supermarket. You have been warned

It must have been 1989 when I first stepped into a supermarket and thought, “Well gosh, now what happens?” Surely, I told myself, surely there had to be some way of transporting the products I wanted from the shelves to the checkout. I looked to other shoppers for advice, but they...

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Jul 09

You can almost smell the end of school holidays

It's the school holiday mid-point. If you're me, that usually means you've already done all the fun bits, and now you're staring down the barrel of a very long week of saying "no" or "no" or occasionally "maybe" every few minutes. But if you're me...

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Jun 29

What REALLY goes down at parent teacher interviews. You'll laugh

It's the last week of term, and for a lot of us that means spending five short minutes perching in tiny chairs in our children's classrooms and finding out whether they've been naughty or nice. The kids. The chairs are always naughty, they're definitely not designed for adults. So...

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