My name is Jodie. This has been a kind of dream of mine to be able to create a site or business like this around something I love. I am a primary school teacher currently taking leave to look after my three beautiful boys, who are 9, 5 and 3.

While I haven't taught my whole working career, it has always been something I have always wanted to do. My mother is a teacher and as a young child I always remember helping her to mark papers (only the true/false or multiple choice answers) knowing that this was something I would do when I grew up. My brother and sister were many times subjected to sitting down at a table with paper and pencils and me standing up front at the blackboard teaching them something or other. I always respected my teachers and knew that they had a special job.

I probably respected my high school teachers too much when they convinced me that teaching wasn't a profession I wanted to be in and I should use my brains in the area of business. And yes I worked in the shipping industry for about 8 years, but kept my interest in the area of teaching children by being a Brownie Guide and Girl Guide leader for many years.

I finally had enough of the business world and turned to my first love of teaching. I love being in the classroom and watching young minds grow and develop. So much happens over a year in the mind of a child, and as a teacher you are there to help that happen. It is a very rewarding job.

With the birth of my children, I felt that I really wanted to be at home for them. This has given my an outlet to use my knowledge and skills to help parents with their children's education. I too find this very rewarding. Becoming a parent with a child at school has allowed me to see that there are things about a child's education that don't always make sense to parents. I have friends with children who will often ask me to explain something their child's teacher has said or they have come across in a newsletter.

The experience of putting this website together has been wonderful. I have learnt much myself about the world of computers and the internet, and it is ongoing learning.

So I hope that you may get as much from this site as I get from putting it together for you.