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21 November 2017 by Lesley Dewar Leave a Comment

How A FIFO Mum or Dad Can Read Their Kids A Bedtime Story

Being the absent FIFO Mum or Dad parent makes the joy of sharing a bedtime story almost impossible. Every parent knows that pang of not being there, at the end of the day, to share something special before a child goes to sleep. Until now.

Now, we have Stories My Nana Tells.

A new Australian-first website for families with kids helps parents and children share stories through Social Media and the Internet: Stories My Nana Tells

With this resource, parents can share unique and engaging stories with their children. It will encourage them to read and help overcome the anxiety of Read More

19 November 2017 by Lesley Dewar Leave a Comment

Kerri-Anne Kennerley interviews Lesley Dewar about Twitter and Politics, on Mornings with Kerri-Anne – Video

Here is a scoop! Kerri-Anne Kennerley featured Lesley Dewar and Stories My Nana Tells’ website and red helicopter logo on her TV show, Mornings With Kerri-Anne on 5 August 2010. It was an unexpected interview about politics and Twitter, and gave great exposure to the new website.

Getty Images sent a professional photographer to get some file photos. Imagine their shock, horror!!! Someone who “might” be having an impact on the election and not a photograph on file. How hilarious!

Not too soon after this, the photograph turned up in a French newspaper, Read More

19 November 2017 by Lesley Dewar Leave a Comment

Tweeting Star of the Australian Election in 2010 Gets TV and Radio Interview

Being named the Tweeting Star of the Australian Election Campaign in 2010 was a huge surprise for Lesley Dewar. It led to a unexpected interview! In fact, to several of them.

Not only with Kerri-Anne Kennerley, live on TV, but to a telephone interview at 5:30am from Radio New Zealand, and others from around the world.

Her interview on Mornings With Kerri-Anne can be seen here Kerri-Anne Video

In this post, there is a link to “Nana Lesley” being interviewed by Radio NZ at 5:30 in the morning, as an Australian Grandmother, about Twitter and Australia politics. That aside, it is something of a surprise to hear she declared in 2010Read More

18 November 2017 by Lesley Dewar Leave a Comment

Is Your Nana An Extreme Activist?

Has anyone called your Nana an “extreme” activist?

Were you a little surprised to see the activist posts about #tweet4taiji on the Stories My Nana Tells Facebook page, back in 2014? Or any of the other environmental posts and shared petitions, since then?

Perhaps we should tell you a little more about Lesley Dewar, who writes all the stories, and what she stands for.

For a very long time, she has actively campaigned for (by being there) and written about (in stories, emails, petitions) environmental issues.

Which begs the question:

When do you become an “extreme” activist?

Is it when you speak out and turn up, on a lot of really worthwhile issues? Is it when you see things are “done” in response to the campaigning? This is the term given to those protesters against the shark cull in Western Australia, by the (former) Premier The Hon Colin Barnett, MP.

Parents want to know who’s talking to their children and what about!

We understand that parents are very concerned about the information given to their children, Read More

17 November 2017 by Lesley Dewar Leave a Comment

Stories My Nana Tells: named in top 50 grandparent blogs on the planet, by Feedspot

The top 50 Grandparent blogs on the planet, as ranked by Feedburner, includes Nana’s Blog from Stories My Nana Tells at number 26. What an honour. We certainly have something to aim for: Let’s get better.

Grandparents are family.

Grandparents are the parents of a person’s father or mother – paternal or maternal. The various words for grandparents at times may also be usedRead More

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