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High heels at thirteen?

High heels at thirteen – or make-up, or boys, or staying out later, or a myriad of other ways that our girls seek to feel more grown up.  All teenagers want to know that they are not the children they used to be – they want to know it for themselves and they want us [...]

Posted on 28 May 2012
Musings: Coming of age, Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers, Rites of passage
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Drive Time

Taxi-ing my children from here to there, via that other place, is not my bliss. I find driving tiring. I do cherish the time alone with a single child though. A car is intimate, private, unconfrontational as we both face forwards, silences can happen with being awkward, secret fears can more easily be voiced, private [...]

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Posted on 19 September 2011
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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