Monthly Archives: September 2011

Bad behaviour is solving a problem

I hate it when my children behave badly. In my fantasy existence, they never would. It is hard not to perceive it as wholly a bad thing and something to be eradicated, sorted, diverted, somehow made to stop. Shouting at them to “JUST STOP IT” doesn’t work though. I’ve tried, more times than I would [...]

Posted on 28 September 2011
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Are you a good advertisement for womanhood?

When your daughter looks at you, does life as a woman look appealing? Would she wish for a life like yours? Can you remember watching your mother as a girl, and making decisions about your own life based on how you saw hers to be? Sometimes I observe myself being martyr-Mummy – selflessly working myself [...]

Posted on 26 September 2011
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Night Life Skills

Once you have your own act together on getting enough sleep, you can see about your children’s night-time habits. What would it take for your children to look forward to bed-time? For mine it is the promise of the next chapter of our bedtime story, and this is true for all three of them, even [...]

Posted on 22 September 2011
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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A Good Night’s Sleep

I believe that settling in the evening and getting a good night’s sleep is one of those important life skills. For this reason I would like to equip each of my children with the self-knowledge to sleep easily and well, most nights anyway. Bed-time routine is not just for toddlers! I need one, you need [...]

Posted on 22 September 2011
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Drive Time

Taxi-ing my children from here to there, via that other place, is not my bliss. I find driving tiring. I do cherish the time alone with a single child though. A car is intimate, private, unconfrontational as we both face forwards, silences can happen with being awkward, secret fears can more easily be voiced, private [...]

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Posted on 19 September 2011
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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