Musings: Parenting teenagers

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What does it take to belong?

“Why can’t our family just be like everyone else?” “I just want to be normal.” “If you come to pick me up, don’t wear that coat / outfit / hair style.” The cry of many a teenager!  They strive for uniformity.  But they also want to feel unique. Feeling more self-aware than ever before, often [...]

Posted on 3 May 2013
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Parents’ hopes and fears

What is your vision for your daughter? Many parents start by saying that they just want their children to be happy. Healthy and happy. We might go on to say that we want our child to be joyful, to love life, to have fun, to know what she wants and have the confidence to pursue [...]

Posted on 26 April 2013
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Birds and bees tangled in the web

Are you worried about online porn? Well, don’t worry… Do something! On TV women are smoother skinned, slimmer, and sexier than ever before.  In magazines they reveal ever more, and what they reveal is ever more perfect.  Online, well, online almost anything goes. Some say that any child on the web is only two clicks [...]

Posted on 18 April 2013
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What did you most want at thirteen?

For me it wasn’t bigger breasts or Boots17 latest or even a boyfriend. I mean I sort of did want a boyfriend but only in the abstract. I probably did long to be the kind of girl who knew how to get, and then what to do with a boyfriend, but since I wasn’t, I [...]

Posted on 27 March 2013
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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The bedtime gateway

“All I can get out of my daughter these days is that she’s ‘fine’ and ‘nothing really happened’ during her day.” “My daughter’s not happy, I know she isn’t.  But either she can’t, or else she just won’t, tell me why.” “She used to tell me everything – too much sometimes – but now I [...]

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Posted on 19 March 2013
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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