Tag Archives: bedtime

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 [...]

Posted on 19 March 2013
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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The Children’s Fire

  Imagine a candle burning at every table in the land where important decisions are being made.  And imagine that this candle serves to remind all those present to hold at the heart of their decision making process that nothing be done that would harm the children.  Imagine how different would be our government, our [...]

Posted on 19 April 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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Family Meetings

Tensions in our house were building. My teenager didn’t want me telling him what to do – but neither was he doing what he needed to be. He was never ready when it came time to leave the house – sometimes to be found on his computer not even dressed or breakfasted. Expecting him not [...]

Posted on 25 November 2011
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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Numbing Out

You do it, I do it, our teenagers do it – but what’s your attitude to it? Checking facebook, emails, watching television, listening to music, reading, eating, gaming, talking on the phone, texting, drinking, smoking, drugs, extreme sports, exercising, working, tidying, sleeping… not necessarily avoidance activities, but they can be. Certainly some ways of numbing [...]

Posted on 18 November 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 [...]

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