The kindness of strangers: I was exhausted wrangling my two young kids – then a man popped $2 into the coin-op ride

The kindness of strangers: I was exhausted wrangling my two young kids – then a man popped $2 into the coin-op ride

When I was feeling utterly worn out, a stranger came along to give my kids joy Read more in the kindness of strangers series I was completely exhausted. While wrangling two kids aged under three, my husband and I had just moved all the way from the Kimberley to Tasmania. I remember being totally sleep deprived and trying to furnish a new house entirely from op-shops, without a support network around. I was so tired I’d recently driven the car into the fence at home – that’s the level of exh...

By Jane Bennetts, as told to Katie Cunningham