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Teach your Kids about where they come from...

by The-Single-Parent-Bible

(May 2006) (rank 149th)

Aussie Aussie Aussie

by Tina Shaw
www.singleparentbible.com.au

How patriotic are we? Although not an avid sports watcher, I’ve got to say I loved a bit of Commonwealth Games action. The grandiose Opening Ceremony, the athletes all so proud and the competition. Oh how I love the competition.

I am an adrenalin junkie, though not through me actively participating, but as an avid (and extremely vocal) viewer. All the cheering, yelling and the rush of excitement at a possible win. Love it.

The Z Man (my toddler) and I had been jumping up and down shouting at the TV for days. I’m sure we were just one swim race away from eviction. This particular sporting extravaganza was even more special, because we had a family friend to cheer on. He ended up walking away with the gold and our feet have hardly touched the ground since. Insert a Steve Irwin type “Woo Hoo!” here.

I love that I am instilling a sense of patriotism in my small boy. We bounced up and down on the couch when Makybe Diva won her third Melbourne Cup, we oohed and ahed when Mary Donaldson married her Danish Prince and we are both proud to call the Wiggles Australia’s own. Z has even taken to calling out “Aussie Aussie Aussie” in supermarkets and is quite perplexed when not answered with the reciprocal “Oi Oi Oi”.

Maybe it’s a mother thing, maybe it’s a single parent thing, or maybe it is just because I am proud of our sunburnt country, but I reckon that a little Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi every now and then is a good thing. I am the self appointed authority on all things Australian to my son. We are big fans of Vegemite, sing along loudly and badly to ‘Land Down Under’, visit the Koalas and Kangaroos at Australia Zoo with alarming frequency and wear our nationality like a much loved comfy old pair of jeans (worn but rarely removed).

We have joined the team that made “Crikey” a part of everyday English language and although the Commonwealth Games have left us, we have a host of adrenalin fuelled events to look forward to. “Advance Australia Fair”, or “Go you good thing”, whatever your vernacular show a little Aussie pride today.

Tina is the publisher of The Single Parent Bible, a fantastic almanac of information for all parents - www.singleparentbible.com.au

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	September 2007 \| BigBearLittleBear

Re: Teach your Kids about where they come from...

When mine says "Aussie Aussie Aussie" it's almost always responded with by "Oi Oi Oi" by even a complete stranger no matter where we are. During the 2004 Olympics, my poor housemate (my DD slept through it) was woken at 2am to me screaming out to our swimmers as they made their way down the pool. She came out with her eyes burning from the lights and her head pounding from the yelling but I wouldn't have missed it for the world! She's got a big book of Waltzing Matilda which was one of the first songs she could recite from beginning to end (Land Down Under is still a bit long for her to recite all the way through) and she loves Hi5 and The Wiggles. She's not allowed to watch Sesamie Street because I teach her to say Zed not Zee and it would confuse her. They also leave the "U" out of words such as colour, and spell Mum in a different way. As she gets older she'll know that it's spelt differently in other places but now, while she's still so little, I won't confuse her with it. She's not deprived of anything other than excessive television and sugar.

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	October 2006 \| Girraween

Oi Oi Oi

I have also taught my three the Oi Oi Oi cry and although we don't get the Commonwealth Games in the US (and how I miss those Games) they took great pleasure in drowning out their daddy's cheers during the Olympics. My daughters may be growing up in another country but they have definite roots in their Australian heritage.

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	September 2006 \| michellei

Teach your Kids about where they come from...

The title did not match up to what I was expecting for this article, but I amj so glad I read it.
Thank you for reminding me to remember we live in the lucky land - the land down under!!

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	September 2006 \| Jessgore

You can take the girl out of australia but you can't that the Australia out of the girl........

My son has and even my step daughter will know what it is like to be an Aussie at the same time as being French Canadian... You can take the girl out of Australia but you can't take the Australia out of the girl... In the local Loblaws supermarket here I can get vegimite, although not found next to the peanut butter rather more with the Bovril for making gravey, my son loves it.... He has his own little Aussie stuffed toys, my parents and friends are always sending over Aussie stuff.... I have the Aussie flag hanging in the basement next to the Quebec flag... And I have pictures of Kangaroo's and koala's hanging on the wall... I have a painting above the fire place of my parents back yard which is bushland, my mother in-law painted it from a photo my mother had taken. My father worked with both the Olympic's and common wealth games (may have seen him riding the motor bikes with the tourches...) I even have a painting of my son crossed between a canadian bever and a Kangaroo, we call him our little beveroo... And we actually get to watch the wiggles here and cold spaghetti cold spaghetti, is a personal favorite...My husband now says boot of the car instead of trunk. I am so looking forward to christmas this year as my hubby will experience christmas with a beer beside a BBQ... AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE... OI OI OI.....

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| September 2006 \| Jessgore

You can take the girl out of australia but you can't that the Australia out of the girl........

I forgot, my son received his Australian citizenship papers a few weeks back. And I am as proud as punch. When I opened the envelope and saw it I actually cried....

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	4.25 (Good) \| May 2006 \| matthew

What can I say but...

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE !! ;)

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	3.28 (Average) \| May 2006 \| hrs2004

Where we come from

I thought from the title tha this was going to be a whole different type of article! ;)

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	3.88 (Good) \| May 2006 \| anonymous

Re: Where we come from

Hey you're right. I need to put something together on that also. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

Cheers
Tina

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