Monthly Archives: October 2011

Time for the grown-ups to grow up

It is natural for our teenagers to trigger our extreme emotions. They want us to feel how they feel. They know how to – they’ve had a lifetime to study us. And after all, in many ways they’ll be uncomfortably like us. Teenagers can bring out the worst in us and we hate it. How [...]

Posted on 31 October 2011
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting teenagers
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Checking the mirror for changes

It is normal for a teenage girl to become absorbed with her own image. It is natural for her to turn to a mirror to check her looks. Often! She is looking for herself. So many of the changes in adolescense are physical and they happen so fast – no wonder our teenagers check the [...]

Posted on 31 October 2011
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting teenagers
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Release the Reins

The teenage years are for self-discovery. After a childhood of parental direction, now is the time to gradually hand over control. She’ll take control anyway, she’s genetically programmed to. When you start to notice your teenager wanting more autonomy, more freedom to make her own decisions, and for you to back off – that is [...]

Posted on 30 October 2011
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting teenagers
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Aspiring to the Impossible

First women wanted to look like Marilyn Munroe, then Twiggy, and now Cheryl Cole. Only now, what we see of Cheryl is not even real. Not only are our stars possibly no longer in possession of their original bustline or lips or hips but their digitally-altered images bear little resemblance to the person herself. Our [...]

Posted on 13 October 2011
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Mealtimes matter

Some say that family mealtimes seem to be at the root of all that is good and wholesome. Whether it be drugs, teenage pregnancy, academic success, or happiness score, social research so often points to family meals as being crucial; sometimes more so even than social class, financial or family situation. Well, if family meals [...]

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Posted on 13 October 2011
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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