Monthly Archives: September 2012

Morning moods

My great-grandmother used to brush my grandmother’s hair one hundred times every morning. My grandmother did the same for my mother. My mother didn’t have time. Now all too often we associate doing our daughter’s hair in the morning with hurry and stress. Tension arises as hair is tugged, child remonstrates, and mother chastises.  We [...]

Posted on 27 September 2012
Musings: Parenting girls
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Stealing time

Who ever comes to the end of their life and wishes that they had done more housework, spent more time at work, tweeted or Facebooked more, or watched more television?  And yet how often do we fill our lives with these things and then say we have no time for other more pleasurable pastimes.  No [...]

Posted on 14 September 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Parenting – a lifetime of letting go

From the moment of giving birth and cutting the umbilical cord, parenting is a lifetime of letting go.  While letting go is liberating it can also be scary and painful. We have to trust that our children will be capable. Our children need us to believe in their competence. We have to trust that they [...]

Posted on 10 September 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls
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New school year starts here

Every family has their rituals at the start of a new school year, whether or not they realise it.  It helps with the nerves and the excitement – more advanced work, new teachers, perhaps a new school even.  Children feel it, parents too.  Our little rituals help to prepare us:- checking the uniform fits, replacing [...]

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Posted on 2 September 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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