Monthly Archives: June 2012

Stop photoshop!

It is making us miserable. – who can help comparing themselves to the images that fill the bill-boards, screens and magazines? It is fake and dishonest. – is this not just plain wrong? 
It is encouraging our daughters to aspire to an impossible ideal. – no diet, surgery or personal trainer can give the idealised [...]

Posted on 28 June 2012
Musings: Parenting girls
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Date your daughter!

From the moment they are born, our children demand a great deal from us. Children are hard work. Hard work that I happen to enjoy, but hard work nevertheless. Parenting a baby demands a lot physically; caring for a toddler is physical, and requires a lot of mental effort; by their teens they have stretched [...]

Posted on 26 June 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Dads matter

A girl’s relationship with her Daddy influences all her future relationships with men. Dad’s can show their daughters: – how to love – how to play – how to follow the rules – how to bend the rules – how to completely flout the rules – how to feel safe with a man – how [...]

Posted on 23 June 2012
Musings: Parenting girls
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Body Beautiful

A baby girl reaches for her toes, fascinated as they dance in and out of her vision. A little girl pulls up her top to display her round belly proudly. A young girl dances up and down the hallway, delighting in her nakedness before a bath. A young school girl insists on wearing the same [...]

Posted on 15 June 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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My toddler-teen!

We’re in the midst of GCSE exams – and I am learning a new and delicate dance that reminds me of a dance I had to learn in the toddler years. My teen wants me to back off.  No gentle reminders to revise required, thank you very much.  No help with devising a revision timetable.  [...]

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Posted on 13 June 2012
Musings: Parenting teenagers
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