oh wow! NZ is so much more civilised!
LOL, I just wanted to quote that! The cost of it are just staggering! At least you get the baby bonus though. We get sweet FA here (about $1250 and it is income tested so we didn't even get that much).

W's behaviour seems to be alright now, he still has semi-regular tanties but they are much shorter than they used to be. I know that Oct/Nov and then Jan/Feb were just terrible but he seems a lot more reasonable now. Actually he is a pretty good kid. Now we just have constant steams of babble. OMG he just goes on and on and on. We were at the neighbours house yesterday and she commented that there must not be a quiet moment at our place because he yaks so much. He went there to play a couple of weeks ago and her kids were playing quietly and W was blurting out every thought that popped into his head.

I can't get over how much like me he is! He has all my personality traits and is sooo similar to how I was as a child.