Lithgow Cares

19/02/2025

So amazing 🤍🖤💜💙🩵💚

12/02/2025

https://youtu.be/zE8LjHdVTh0?si=nbSGXW6pIzPHnWxz

The Role Of A Lifetime will explore how to parent in the rapidly changing world using scripted comedy sketches featuring a sitcom family to play out the most...

10/02/2025

Internet safety should be a top priority. FYI for parents
Rutland MA Police Department
Barre Police Department
Hubbardston Police Department
Oakham Police Department
Warren Patrolman's Association

05/02/2025

Lithgow Growth room on Wednesday night 6pm - 8pm at “The Hub” (WSU uni building). Run for blokes by blokes. Come down and meet the fellas to really unpack what’s been going on, make new connections and give back to men just like you. Meet members such as Steve and Dean who have been doing this for over a year now

30/01/2025

29/01/2025

Are you a domestic and family violence NGO worker or a frontline service worker? Sign up for training about coercive control! New laws about coercive control have come into effect in NSW, and it’s important to know how this impacts your work. Coercive control is when someone repeatedly hurts, scares or isolates another person to control them.
It’s domestic abuse and causes serious harm.
Attend our free online webinar series to learn more about coercive control so you can be more informed and continue supporting people at risk in your community.
Register here for the first webinar session
https://events.humanitix.com/effective-intervention-and-coercive-control-webinar-series-economic-and-financial-coercive-control

More information about the training will be available on the CCWT website as future webinars are released

19/01/2025

One of the mysteries of life for me is why we have designed school in such a way that it requires children to do so many things which are very hard for them - and which become much easier in adulthood.

We require them to sit still when they are desperate to move. To stay in their seats when they want to crawl under the table. To keep quiet and listen when their body wants to play and shout.

We tell them to walk not run, when every part of their body longs to move fast. We put them into nylon trousers when they’d prefer soft leggings. We make a big deal out of things they can’t do yet, but which almost everyone learns as they grow up. Shapes, colours, telling the time. We teach them to read before they have the desire for themselves, and make them do maths which they find incomprehensibly difficult, but that a few years later will feel so simple as to be trivial. No matter whether you go to school or not.

We’ve designed school so that it’s hard for immature brains and bodies, and then we blame children and parents when they can’t follow the rules. We tell them they aren’t school-ready, or they need to try harder. We point out all the many ways in which they fall short. Too noisy, too active, too impulsive, too….childish.

By the time those children reach adolescence, the urge to roll on the floor or hang off the chair is fading, but the years of being told they have to sit still and listen have taken their toll. They’ve lost the raw energy of childhood, but it’s more than that. They’ve lost their joy in learning, because school wasn’t built for the child they were, any more than it is for the teenager they’ve become.

And then again, it’s them who are blamed. Disruptive, rude, bad attitudes. It would be so much better if they simply did what they were told.

But what we’re telling them to do in school is squashing our children. Children aren’t built to sit still and absorb information. They are built to keep moving and playing. To hang upside down and climb on the roof. To dream and shout and talk all the time.

But when our children tell us so, we’re not listening. We tell them that the problem is them. Their behaviour, their energy, their whims and their propensity to roll on the carpet if they get the chance

Who are the slow learners?

Not them.

13/01/2025

10/01/2025

03/01/2025

This information campaign from the Government might seem a bit obtuse, but I think it's really important for Men to understand this isn't an attack on them.

For centuries, the "rules of engagement" around sexual consent have been largely written by men, and I don't necessarily believe these were necessarily formed (for the most part) in bad faith.

Our society has never really had space for Women to safely speak up about their experiences with sexual consent. This isn't necessarily because of Men today, it's just the reality of the World we were all born into.

As a result, putting aside obvious instances of sexual violence, many men simply drew their moral lines around intimacy based on their own lived experience; essentially asking themselves how they would feel in the same circumstances. In most aspects of life, this is an entirely reasonable position to hold.

As the movement brilliantly articulated, however, the lived experience of Women is often incomparable to that of Men. The power dynamic, the physical strength difference, the history of r**e, and the notion of bodily autonomy, are all vastly different concepts if you are a Woman or if you're a Man.

This means it's not sufficient for Men to act in "good faith", we now need to listen in good faith to understand how the same situation may feel completely different to a Woman.

For the first time in history, we're asking Women to lead this conversation about how we can embrace love and sexuality in a way that everyone enjoys. We will all be better off for taking part in this conversation with an open mind.

29/12/2024

If you or someone you know needs a bit of extra support over the holidays, remember that help is available. 💙

23/12/2024

Good advice about being with children's feelings - especially at this time of year where it's tempting to put ourselves under pressure to have everything "perfect" but everyone is tired and over stimulated. Take a moment ....

23/12/2024

Thinking about everyone who may not experience the holidays as joyful. You are not alone ❤️