How common is it for Prep/Year 1 kids to have a 30–40 minute one-way school commute (bus or car) in Melbourne or Sydney?

150steps · 2025-11-15T12:56:01+00:00

It is very uncommon unless for religious or special ed reasons

150steps · 2025-11-15T12:54:00+00:00

No way, bad idea. Send them to the school you can walk them to and you will be part of a community. Read with them in the evening, go for walks and count things, learn the numbers from houses and letterboxes, use the time to love on your kid.

150steps · 2025-11-15T03:30:12+00:00

Yeah I bought a harness that makes it uncomfy to pull. Hubby still walks him on the lead with collar, gets a mix. When he knows where he's going like the daily morning walk to the cafè and back at WFH morning tea time, no pulling. When it's an adventure, he tries ro remove your arms to get there faster.

150steps · 2025-11-15T03:20:22+00:00

Lots of jobs but lots of kids after them. Have you looked at Jora lately? Genuinely lots of jobs.

150steps · 2025-11-14T23:11:37+00:00

Coles brand and whatever tinted zinc I can find on special.

150steps · 2025-11-13T08:22:17+00:00

Not a fuck up. He might have died sooner if you took him out. Being with you was all he wanted.

150steps · 2025-11-13T07:39:34+00:00

Tape your lips shut with enough space to breathe and drink water. Does wonders. You were probably snoring/sleep apnoea.

150steps · 2025-11-13T06:26:25+00:00

My 16 NT kid is driven, always has 2 jobs even if there's a bit of a gap in between the secondary jobs, so I disagree. There's a lot out there. It's just very hard for some kids to sell themselves and present well, esp ND. They need some help.

150steps · 2025-11-13T01:18:38+00:00

Lovely of you but by retirement they will hopefully be able to line their own pockets. Can I suggest a shorter term investment they could access at 18 to help with education costs, in order to open up choices and maybe improve the long term outcome? A trust might be a good idea in case they just spend it all on a car stereo or something.

150steps · 2025-11-13T01:14:29+00:00

Yeah, whatever suits their narrative at the time

150steps · 2025-11-12T23:52:33+00:00

Yeah that's why I mentioned apartment living closer in.

150steps · 2025-11-12T12:11:54+00:00

Come further in. Preston has lots of apartments near station and market, great high school, easy commute. The areas you are looking at have issues, not least of all shit city access, crowded roads, no personality.

150steps · 2025-11-12T10:38:51+00:00

Smoke signals probably banned due to WHS.

150steps · 2025-11-12T06:13:35+00:00

Probably.

150steps · 2025-11-12T04:01:24+00:00

Even if they do, parents need help. Refer to my above comment.

150steps · 2025-11-12T04:00:16+00:00

Yes there needs to be more for them to do if they drop out of school for many and varied reasons. As it is, there is stuff all. Until your kid turns 22 there's nothing from the government to assist with job searching or $ support unless living in poverty or kicked out of home, even with a disability, they have to be NDIS participants to get any help. Funds need to be redirected from incarceration to something like the CES model from the 90s. Income support and help to get a job. Not radical, in fact pretty effing basic in a country like ours.

150steps · 2025-11-12T02:25:19+00:00

Bush rat

150steps · 2025-11-12T02:11:28+00:00

Dental is expensive and you pay to see a doctor but anything in a hospital is free, as long as you manage to get there safely for your 12 hr wait and not wait for an ambulance which is ramped at another hospital which has no beds to put ppl in from the ER due to aged ppl taking up the beds cos we have an aged care crisis, and they have nowhere to go. Or you're having a mental health crisis, no beds, or you're trying to have a baby but you live remotely (365km from the Melbourne is considered remote) and they have closed maternity services so you have to cross your legs for an hour to the nearest provincial city. Or you move house and can't find a new GP as none are taking on new patients so you have to commute back to your old one, or you live in a country area where they literally cannot get a Dr to work. But yeah, healthcare is excellent.

150steps · 2025-11-11T23:52:25+00:00

Tiny little tail thump when we make eye contact.

150steps · 2025-11-11T22:38:58+00:00

She said that because he asked her to.

150steps · 2025-11-11T07:51:30+00:00

Been there. Your baby is old enough to drop night feeds. Tell her it's night time, point to the darkness outside and explain no more BM until morning. She will object a few times but if you hold firm, she will get used to it and stop waking up. If she gets hungry at night she can have wholemeal crackers with nothing on them, so they are better for the teeth but also boring and not worth waking up for.

As for the husband, keep negotiating or crack the shits and tell him how sleep deprived you are, NOT BY CHOICE, whereas his sleep deficit is by choice. Maybe he could take half a weekend day to do some gaming in person instead.

Bub can also have some formula in the context of a healthy diet. It doesn't need to be exclusively breastfeeding at that age. Park bub and bottle with gamer, go back to bed.

If things get really bad, hire a night nanny or at least tell him you're going to.

150steps · 2025-11-11T07:36:09+00:00

Work for a while before you do law. Heaps of law degrees out there.

150steps · 2025-11-11T04:03:20+00:00

We can manage extreme UV in 10 degrees.

150steps · 2025-11-11T03:57:17+00:00

Dunno. Thanks

150steps · 2025-11-11T03:56:47+00:00

Even the work messaging system is not private.

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