Hi-yo silver it's the free ranger....

okay - so my ootb experience started yesterday at the Changing Habitats symposium.
It was an amazing day - Lenore Skenazy, the founder of the free range kids movement skyped in and was fantastic. I'm following her blog on my blog so check her out. An amazing woman with a perfectly logical position. Anyway, I'm indebted to Lenore for creating a space which gives permission to us parents to do what we know instinctively is the right thing to do re: letting children grown, learn, fail & succeed. I got the honour of delivering the Australian response to the free range kids idea and also do some popping with MC Candy Bowers - the husband and I are now officially her no. 1 fans. Anyway, all I have to say is artsworkers make the best audiences!
Now for the kids - my first official RDO is tomorrow (since starting full-time work) and I'm spending it at OOTB (ah, middle age....) So me and my oldest can't wait for tomorrow and I'm hoping I can find a close library to borrow My Place to read tonight before tomorrow's workshop - nothing like good planning people. It should be an interesting day - I've got a meeting with a funding body for the community organization I'm involved in so immediately after our flight deck workshop so I'm packing a change of clothes to go from you mum to board member all in one day. superwoman I know!!!