Newsletter April 2019

WATTON GROUP

APRIL 2019 NEWSLETTER

MISSSION STATEMENT

Our aim is to support each other in our role as carers of a family member or friend living in Wyndham City.

FROM MY DESK MEETINGS, EVENTS & (looking out the window) EDUCATION

I sit contemplating the past year Christmas lunch was enjoyed

2018. It gave us both highs and at Jacksons on K. The menu

lows with looking forward to was scrumptious; we had a

2019. So here we are a little more wonderful time with drawing three months into the new year. raffles and celebrating the The The journey to accessing the NDIS holiday season. Priscilla had a and preparing for our planning great surprise with massage meetings would have been more vouchers that were donated. complex if it wasn’t for Linda Bone.

Linda was engaged by Carers Vic Another pleasant activity we to assist carers with their planning enjoyed was a walk and brunch meetings. This resulted, not during Seniors Week in

surprisingly, with positive results October. Thank you Wyndham

for many. Thank you Carers Vic City Council for funding this

and bless you Linda. event.

A bit of a tumultuous year WALKING GROUP

with no replacement for the Remember to register for this Facilitator but we agreed to which is held on the second

carry on as is. Priscilla agreed Tuesday of the month

to carry on the role of fundraising. Please ring Carers Vic on as she enjoys this. A final decision 9396 9550 preferably the week later in the year after the last before to register using funding round this year from Carers Vic. code till December.

Workshops were held by Carers WERRIBEE MOVIE GROUP

Vic on Strong Boundaries Commenced this year on the last and Aged Care which we Tuesday of every month. Appreciated and found useful. Wonderful for movie buffs!!

COMING UP OVERNIGHT TRIP TO QUEENSCLIFF IN OCTOBER

STAY TUNED!!!

DID YOU KNOW…

That a vast array of historical and demographic research suggests that childhood is a relatively recent invention. It came into being after the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when childhood was acknowledged to exist, to be a feature of the natural order of things. It came into being as the new medium of print imposed divisions between children and adults. But now those divisions are eroding under the barrage of television, which turns the adult secrets of sex and violence into popular entertainment and pitches both news and advertising at the intellectual level of ten-year olds.

I didn’t till I started reading a book ‘The Disappearance of Childhood’ by Neil Postman. It makes very interesting and fun to read.